LEVEL OF TOXICITY AND PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING OF LANSAU TRADITIONAL MEDICINE OF MUNA TRIBE FROM SOUTH EAST SULAWESI

Lansau as a traditional medicine from Muna ethnic Southeast Celebes consist of 44 kinds of herbal medicine. Lansau related to spiritual philosophic of Muna ethnic adopted from Islamic mysticism. This study aims to investigate the level of toxicity of the 44 kinds of traditional medicinal plants of Lansau, against larval shrimp Artemia Salina L. with BSLT method. Phytochemical screening using Thin Layer Chromatography techniques to determine the compound from each part of the plants consists of alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins, saponins and triterpenoid and toxicity test against Artemia Salina L. larvae of Artemia salina L. Mortality data were analyzed by probit analysis using SPSS 19 to determine the LC50 value for each sample. Toxic extract when the value LC50