Traditional Knowledge on Plants Utilization in Postpartum Care: An Ethnobotanical Study in Local Community of Cimande, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia

Abstract

An ethnobotanical study was conducted in five villages in the vicinity of Cimande Resort, Bogor, West Java, predominantly occupied by the Sundanese people.  Forty-eight species of plants were recorded in their application in postpartum care and four species of plants in the care of the newborns. “Jamu Godogan” or boiled herbs, taken by mothers on day 8-15 after birth, contained most diverse herbs of 11 plants species. Three species (Curcuma longa, Piper betle, and Plectranthus scutellarioides) have more than two utilization categories. Nine out of 50 species of utilized medicinal plants have not been registered in the Indonesian Medicinal Plants Index and Medicinal Plants Dictionary; thus, new records.