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Usada: The Ethnomedicine of Balinese Society

Published:21 Nov 2020
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I Wayan Muderawan1, I Made Budiawan2, Made Kurnia Widiastuti Giri2, I Nengah Bawa Atmaja3

1 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Ganesha University of Education, Singaraja, Bali

2 Study Program of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ganesha University of Education, Singaraja, Bali

3 Study Program of History and Sociology, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Ganesha University of Education, Singaraja, Bali

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Bali has a very valuable and noble local wisdom that needs to be preserved namely Usada. Usada is ethnoscience, specificaly ethnomedicine, which is owned by the Balinese people that needs to be studied and has been used as references in medical treatments. This study aims to discuss the origins of Usada, the views of Balinese people about health and illness, and the types of Usada as ethnomedicine of Balinese society. This study is a qualitatively and descriptively study with the object of study being Usada in Lontar Museum Gedong Kirtya, Singaraja, Bali. Data were collected by literature study, interview, questionnaire and observation methods. Data were analyzed qualitatively-descriptively to get a general description of Usada as ethnomedicine in Bali. The study results show that Usada is a Balinese indigenous science that has been developing more than 600 years ago. Usada is the science of traditional healing methods or traditional medicinal treatment system written in the lontar leaves using Belinese scripts - known as lontar Usada - as a result of Balinese idigenous knowledge and wisdom. The main and primary source of Usada is Ayurveda which is a branch of Atharva Veda. Balinese people believe and view that illness can be caused by the natural power (kuasa sekala) and the supernatural power (kuasa niskala). There are 94 types of Lontar Usada collected in Gedong Kirtya with a total number of 204 versions. In the Lontar Usada was described the method to deal with the disease comprehensively both natural and supernatural basis.

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indigenous knowledgeethnomedicineusadaayurvedabalian

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Muderawan, I. W., Budiawan, I. M., Giri, M. K. W., & Atmaja, I. N. B. (2020). Usada: The Ethnomedicine of Balinese Society. International Journal of Ayurvedic and Herbal Medicine, 10(6). https://doi.org/10.31142/ijahm/v10i6.04

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