Herbal theology and its application in papuan society
Keywords:
Theology of Herbal, Clinical Healing, Herbs in Bible, PapuanAbstract
The purpose of this study is to describe herbal theology and the phenomenon of its application in the Papuan-Indonesian community. This research is a kind of a qualitative descriptive study using a library research approach and a field research approach. The library research technique was used to obtain information about herbal plants in the Bible, while field research was used to see the phenomenon of the use of herbal plants in the Papuan community. This study succeeded in exploring and explaining the herbal phenomena written in the Bible, as well as connecting them with the practice of using herbs as an effort to obtain clinical healing in the Papuan-Indonesian community.
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