Nurul Qamariah
Muhammadiyah University of Palangkaraya, Indonesia
Title: ETHNOBOTANICAL STUDY OF QUR`AN PLANTS
Biography
Biography: Nurul Qamariah
Abstract
In Islam, ethical teachings of biomedical ethics are linked with Holy Qur`an and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Qur`an is the central religious text of Islam, which Muslims believe to be a revelation from God. The Quran is divided into chapters (surah in Arabic), which are then divided into verses (ayah). Qur`an mention a great number of wild plants that are still used in folk medicine. Qur`an is one of the best reference books describing the importance of plants for medical benefits, where there are 28 Chapter (Surah) those mentioned specific name of plants in Al-Qur`an. This paper aims to compile the up-to-date information about some medicinal plants that mentioned in Al-Qur`an. Based on the collected data, there are 27 plant species mentioned in Al-Qur`an. In this paper, plants species were arranged in systematic order of identity of plant (The identity of the selected plants were confirmed from existing literature such as, books, journal article, and family and species of plants were confirmed from nomenclatural and bibliographic database), followed by Indonesian name, English name, Family, references cited from Holy Qur`an, part used, chemical constituents, and efficacy of herbal medicine that has been used both empirically and scientifically.