Studi Kasus Penggunaan Obat Tradisional Daun Jarak Merah (Jatropha gossypifolia L) sebagai Obat Anti Malaria pada Mahasiswa dan Alumni Teknologi Laboratorium Medis

Zulkifli I. Tuara
Irfan H. Arif
Asmin Lukman

Jurnal Ilmiah Wahana Pendidikan
Vol 7 No 8 (2021): Jurnal Ilmiah Wahana Pendidikan

This research is a survey research with a survey method for ages 18-26 years with a profession as a Health Analyst, intending to qualitatively describe the use of red jatropha leaves as traditional medicine. Charging the respondent's knowledge of the use of traditional medicine shows that 55% do not know when compared to those who know only 45% of respondents who know traditional anti-malarial medicine 55% of them choose red castor plants while others choose other traditional medicines. These results indicate that the average respondent has a more negative response to the supervision of the use of red jatropha leaves as an anti-malarial drug, but the difference is not that far, it's 6% of the sample chooses between using traditional medicine and modern medicine