KEARIFAN LOKAL MASYARAKAT DAYAK BENUAQ DALAM MEMANFAATAN TUMBUHAN BERHASIAT OBAT DI KUTAI BARAT, KALIMANTAN TIMUR

Medicinal plants are trees or other woody plants. Is one of the potential biological natural resources, namely plants with many benefits and believed by the community to contain substances that are beneficial to the human body as a treatment to cure a disease. Research conducted in Muara Nilik Village, East Kalimantan aims to determine the types of plants with medicinal properties, how they are used as medicine by people living in the interior of East Kalimantan forests and parts of plants and how to use them as medicine. The research method used was purposive sampling, data collection techniques with the respondent's selection then conducting direct interviews with the public or people who know about the types of medicinal plants and direct observation. From the results of research conducted in Muara Nilik Village, there were 64 types of medicinal plants used by the community. Based on where they were found, 64 of these species were in forests or former fields, including 22 tree species, 22 shrubs, 13 lianas, 4 herbs, 2 nails. and palms 1. Of the total number of medicinal plants used by the people of Muara Nilik Village, the parts of the plants used are 2% rhizome, 3% fruit, 4% flowers, 9% skin, 29% roots, and 52% leaves. The research also shows how to use medicinal plants, as for the various ways people do it, namely eating 3%, chewing, 3%, dropping, 1% sticking 12%, brewing 35%, and smearing 46%. Based on research conducted from these 64 types, there are 5 types that are most often used by the community for treatment because they are considered to have properties in these types of plants that are very effective in treating diseases so that their existence is reduced because they are often taken by the community so that they need to be cultivated, namely Kaser, Saliq Malik, Serempuly, Wakay Munong Puti and Selegontut