<![CDATA[Nowadays, the trend of living healthily has been resurfaced that the treatment with natural ingredients has started to be popular again. The efforts to treat with traditional medicine serve as a form of community empowerment and an appropriate technology which could improve the level of public health. Riau Islands Province ranks ad the 28th place in terms of using Family Medicinal Plants, about 22%. According to the preliminary survey conducted in June 2024 in Kabil Village, Nongsa District, Batam City, the use of family medicinal plants is relatively small since there has only been a few families who grow medicinal plants in their yard. One alternative that can be taken to deal with this problem is to carry out the counseling program for the use of family medicinal plants. This activity is aimed at increasing participants' understanding the beneficial impacts of medicinal plants and to process involved. The method applied is a lecture followed by immediate discussion using leaflets involving the types, the uses and the processing of family medicinal plants. This activity has run quite well and the participants' were vividly enthusiastic when discussing with the source person and the resulting activities were capable of increasing the participants' understanding as it was shown by the increase in post-test scores in comparison with the previous one. It is advisable that the commuity leaders initiate the local residents through the planting of the family medicinal plants in their own yards or gardens.]]>
