Abstract :
The ethnopharmaceutical study is an approach used to explore the local
knowledge of certain communities in terms of the use of medicinal plants to find
out how to use and process plant parts that are used as an alternative treatment for
diarrhea in the hamlet of Tempel, Pakis Baru, Pacitan, East Java. Diarrheal
disease at the Pakis Baru health center in 2018 to 2020 for diarrheal diseases was
included in the top 10 most diseases. This study aims to determine the types of
plants used, how to use and determine the value of UV and ICF.
This research is a descriptive study that uses qualitative and quantitative
methods with a sampling technique using snowball sampling through open-ended
interviews with 14 informants who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria using
a check list/questionnaire.
Plants that have the potential as antidiarrheal were analyzed using Use
Value (UV) and Informant Consensus Factor (ICF). Based on the results of the
study, it was found that there were 17 plant species used as diarrhea medicine in
Tempel hamlet, 8 plant species that had a Use Value (UV) value close to 1 were 8
plants, namely: guava leaves, turmeric rhizomes, sepat bananas, salak fruit and
jackfruit with a value of 1, sapodilla fruit with a value of 0.857, coconut fruit with
a value of 0.571, and cinnamon with a value of 0.5, while the value of the
Informant Concensus Factor (ICF) obtained a value of 1.