Since hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of our nation has been famous for concocting clever herbs and traditional medicines. Various types of plants, roots, and other natural ingredients formulated as a medicinal herb to cure various diseases. Ingredients were also used to maintain the condition of the body to stay healthy, prevent disease, and partly to beautify themselves. Proficiency mix the ingredients were passed down by our ancestors from generation to generation, from one generation to the next, down to our time. In various areas in the country, we find various books that contain procedures for treatment and other types of traditional medicine. In Bali, for example, found the book usadha tuwa, white usadha, usadha go, and usadha series which contains different types of traditional medicine. In folklore as Sudamala story, narrated how Sudamala successfully healed a blind eye Tambapetra pastor. Similarly, relief story Mahakarmmawibhangga on foot of Borobudur temple, depicting a small child sick and being treated two physicians. One of the other reliefs, also exhibited a physician is dispensing medication.
Indonesian and Traditional Medicine
Since hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of our nation has been famous for concocting clever herbs and traditional medicines. Various types of plants, roots, and other natural ingredients formulated as a medicinal herb to cure various diseases. Ingredients were also used to maintain the condition of the body to stay healthy, prevent disease, and partly to beautify themselves. Proficiency mix the ingredients were passed down by our ancestors from generation to generation, from one generation to the next, down to our time.
In various areas in the country, we find various books that contain procedures for treatment and other types of traditional medicine. In Bali, for example, found the book usadha tuwa, white usadha, usadha go, and usadha series which contains different types of traditional medicine. In folklore as Sudamala story, narrated how Sudamala successfully healed a blind eye Tambapetra pastor. Similarly, relief story Mahakarmmawibhangga on foot of Borobudur temple, depicting a small child sick and being treated two physicians. One of the other reliefs, also exhibited a physician is dispensing medication.
Similarly, in the tradition of Malay manuscripts found that prescription drugs present. Manuscripts, among others, includes various jamusawan, sliding herbs, herbal medicine for pregnant and give birth, eye pain medicine, pain medication, to medications appetite enhancer. The transition from Hindu-Buddhist era to the Islamic era, has enriched the traditional circles of treatment in our society. Various Islamic medical books written in Arabic and Persian, has translated well into the Java language or languages Melayu.Semua lasted without interruption, until the nation we know the science of medicine from Europe in colonial times.
In the middle of the rush of modern medicine, herbal medicine and traditional herbs remains one of the options for our society. Not only in rural communities, urban communities began to consume these traditional medicines. Various corners of the country, we easily find the vendors hawking herbal medicinal carrying around as a healthy and refreshing drink. Similarly, herbal medicine stalls spread evenly across the country. Herbal and traditional medicines, has become an inseparable part of our community life.
The diversity of traditional medicines in the country, have enriched science, and health of our nation. Our country became one of the centers of medicinal plants in the world. Thousands of species of tropical plants, thriving in all corners of the country. Not all types of plants that we know the benefits and usefulness. We just believe that God created all kinds of plants, it certainly is not in vain. All that certainly helps. Olehkarena it is necessary to the conservation of natural resources, to avoid any type of plant species. Forest fires not only destroy the wildlife and fauna, but also cause pollution and global warming raises the temperature.
Herbal and traditional medicines, has yet to be developed optimally. The production of herbal and traditional medicines are produced by homeindustry more. Only a fraction herbal and traditional medicines are produced en masse through the herbal industry and traditional medicine in the factories. To improve quality, quality, and herbal products as well as drugs produced by our society, necessary cooperation of all parties that it intended to terkait.Kerjasama herbal and traditional medicines are produced can compete in both regional and global markets.
Circulation of herbs and medicines are not listed in Obatdan Food Control Agency, will harm consumers. In addition, economically, the circulation of drugs like it would damage the image of traditional medicine. Finally damaged the image that will be hitting the production and marketing of traditional medicines, at home and abroad. Government, continue to perform surveillance in order to enhance safety, quality, and the benefits of traditional medicine. This was done so that people are protected from traditional medicine that can cause unwanted effects.
Through research and development is carefully and thoroughly, herbal and traditional medicines can be directed to a drug that is acceptable in formal health care. Indeed we must admit, that doctors and pharmacists, until now still not able to receive as a herbal medicine that can they recommend to their patients. As a result, marketing of herbal products can not use force as in modern drug detailers.
Lately, it seems the trend of healthy living in the community to use products derived from nature. Therefore, herbal and traditional medicines need to be encouraged to be one treatment option. Jamudan traditional medicines should be encouraged also to become a commodity that can make a positive contribution to improving the economic growth of society. Activities also provide opportunities of employment opportunities, and reduce poverty.
Excerpted from the Greeting Opening of the 5th National Congress of the Association of Indonesian Herbal and Traditional Medicine by the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Classification of Traditional Medicine
Traditional medicine is the ingredient or ingredients in the form of plant material, animal material, mineral materials, preparation Sarian (galenik) or mixtures of these materials, which for generations has been used for treatment based on experience.
Natural medicines that exist in Indonesia today can be categorized into three, namely herbs, standardized herbal medicine, and fitofarmaka.
Jamu (empirical based herbalmedicine)
Jamu is a traditional medicine that has traditionally provided, which contains the entire plant material into constituent herbal medicine, hygiene (contamination free) and used traditionally. Herbal medicine has been used for generations for decades, perhaps even hundreds of years, In general, this type of recipe is made with reference to the ancestral heritage. Form of herbal medicine does not require scientific evidence to clinical, but enough with the empirical evidence of heredity.
Standardized Herbal Medicines (Scientificbased herbal medicine)
Logo standardized Herbal Medicines
Traditional medicine is being presented from penyarian extracts or natural ingredients that can be either medicinal plants, animals, and minerals. To carry out this process requires more complex equipment and expensive, plus dengant enaga supporting work with the knowledge and skills of making extracts. In addition to the production process with advanced technology, this type has been supported by scientific evidence of studies pre-clinical (animal testing) with mengikutis tandar nutritious ingredients, medicinal plant extracts manufacturing standards, standards of hygienic production of traditional medicines, and toxicity tests akutmaupun chronic.
Phytopharmaca (basedherbal Clinical medicine)
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Phytopharmaca is traditional medicines from natural ingredients that can be compared to modern drugs because the manufacturing process that has been standardized, supported by scientific evidence to clinical trials in humans with syarati lmiah meet the criteria, testing protocols that have been approved, a competent executive, meets the principles of ethics, the execution of the test are eligible. With clinical trials will further convince the medical profession to use herbal medicine in health care facilities. Communities can also be encouraged to use herbal medicines because the benefits are clear scientific evidence.
Know Your Family Medicinal Plants
Understanding TOGA
Toga is the abbreviation of medicinal plants of the family. Plant family medicine is essentially a piece of land either in the yard, garden or fields used to cultivate plants that efficacious as a medicine in order to meet family needs for drugs. Garden herbs or ingredients and then be distributed to the public, especially drug derived from plants.
Utilization of Medicinal Plants
Since the creation of human beings on the earth's surface, has also created the natural surroundings from it anyway since humans began to try to exploit the natural surroundings to meet the needs of nature for his life, including the need drugs to cope with health problems. The reality is that with the help of medicines from natural ingredients, the public can address the health problems it faces. This suggests that drugs derived from natural sources especially plant material have shown its role in the administration of public health efforts.
Utilization TOGA used for the treatment of health disorders families according to common symptoms are:
Fever
Cough
Stomach ache
Itching
Types of Plants For TOGA
Type of plant that must be cultivated for medicinal plant family is the types of plants that meet the following criteria:
The species mentioned in the utilization of medicinal plants.
The species commonly used as a residential area of drugs.
Types of plants that can grow and live well in residential areas.
Types of plants that can be utilized for other purposes such as: fruit and spices
The species is nearly extinct
Other plants are still wild
Types of medicinal plants mentioned in the utilization of the plant is a plant that is commonly planted in the yard or grow in the residential area.
Toga function
Toga is one of the functions as a means to bring their herbs to the efforts of public health include the following:
Preventive measures (preventive)
Promotive (meniungkatkan health status)
Curative efforts (cure)
In addition to the above functions there are also other functions, namely:
Means to improve the nutritional status of communities, because many plants known as medicinal plants producing fruits or vegetables such as turnips, celery, papaya and others.
Means for nature conservation.
If the manufacture of natural medicinal plants is not accompanied by efforts to re-cultivation, the sources of natural medicinal materials were mainly plants will be extinct.
Means of spread of greening movement.
For the green hills that are currently experiencing deforestation, may be recommended that the dissemination of planting medicinal plants such as tree-shaped tree-pahon acid, Kedaung tree, trees trengguli and others.
Means for pemertaan income.
Toga in addition serves as a means to provide the ingredients for the family can also function as a source of income for the family.
Means of beauty.
With the toga, and when the procedure well then this will result in beauty for the people / society around it. To produce beauty care is needed in the planting of crops grown mainly in the yard.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE OF PLANT MEDICINE
In using medicinal plants, there are several things to consider so that treatment outcomes maxima. Read carefully all the instructions about medications timbuhan below.
A. GATHERING TIME
To get the best ingredients from medicinal plants, keep in mind moments of gathering or harvesting nutritious ingredients.
Here are guidelines for the collection of materials in general medicine.
Leaves are collected during the flowering plants and before the fruit became ripe.
Flowers were collected before or immediately after bloom.
Ripe fruits are picked in the state.
Seeds were collected from yan g fruit perfectly ripe.
Roots, rhizomes (rhizome), tubers (tuber), and bulbs (bulbus) of plants collected during the process stops.
LAUNDERING AND DRYING
Ingredients that have been collected immediately washed, preferably with running water. Once clean, can be utilized when needed use the freshest ingredients. However, it can also be dried to be stored and used when needed at any time.
Drying aims to reduce water content and mengcegah decay by fungi or bacteria. Thus, the material can be stored longer in a jar or a sealed container. Dry ingredients are also easily crushed if you want to create powder.
Here's how to dry ingredients:
Materials are large and contain lots of water can be cut into pieces as needed in advance.
Drying can be directly under the sun, or wear protective gear such as fine wire if that does not require drying too quickly.
Drying can also be done by air the material in the shade or inside the drying chamber a good air flow.
NATURE AND CITA RASA
In Traditional Chinese Pharmacology known 4 and 5 different kinds of properties Cira taste medicinal plants, which are part of the way traditional eastern medicine. As for the four kinds of medicinal properties of plants that are cold, hot, warm, and cool. Medicinal plants that are heat and warm is used for the treatment of cold syndrome, as patients who are afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, pale tongue or slow pulse. Herbs that are cold and cool use for the treatment of heat syndrome, such as fever, thirst, the color of dark yellow urine, red tongue or rapid pulse.
Five kinds of medicinal herbs taste is spicy, sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. The flavor is used for certain purposes because in addition associated with an organ, also has its own efficacy and usefulness. For example, has a spicy taste and stimulating properties spread. Sweetness efficacious tonic and remedy. Preserve a sense of potent acid and pengelat. Bitter taste can mengilangkan hot and humid. While the taste of salt to soften and as a laxative. Sometimes there is also the added flavor of the sixth, which is neutral or nutritious as fresh urine laxative.
Boiling INGREDIENTS DRUG
Boiling is generally done in soil pots, ceramic pots, or panic email. Ceramic pots can be purchased in traditional Chinese medicine stores. Panic of iron, aluminum or brass should not be used for boiling. It is reminded that these materials can lead to sediment, low concentrations of drug solution, the formation of toxic or cause side effects due to chemical reactions with the ingredients.
Use clean water to boil. Fresh water should be used, unless otherwise specified. How to boil the ingredients as follows. Materials incorporated into the potting soil. Add water until the ingredients completely submerged and the water surface about 30 mm above it. Boiling starts when the water had seeped into the medicinal herb ingredients.
Do boiling with fire according to the instructions of manufacture. If the flame is not specified, it is usually done by boiling over high heat until the water is boiling. Furthermore, the fire reduced the cooking water to prevent overflow or dry up too quickly. However, sometimes a big fire and a small flame is used alone when boiling the danger of drugs. For example, drugs are efficacious tonic generally boil over low heat so that the efficacious substance can be completely removed in the cooking water. Similarly, medicinal plants that contain toxins that need to be boiled with a small fire in a long time, about 3-5 hours to reduce toxicity. Flame is mostly used for medicinal herb that is intended to be a fast boiling and evaporation of excess of substance is the active component of the plant can be prevented.
DRINKING TIME DRUG
If there is no user, the drug is usually taken before meals unless the drug stimulates stomach so drunk after a meal. Efficacious drugs with an empty stomach tonic drink, and efficacious drugs like sedatives taken during sleep. In chronic diseases taken as scheduled on a regular basis. Drug decoction can be drunk as often as is necessary, or drunk as a tea substitute.
HOW DRINKING DRUG
Medication is usually taken one dose a day divided 2-3 times for a drink. Generally drunk while warm, especially for the treatment of external syndrome. After taking medication, wear thick clothes or bed covered in order to keep the body warm and sweat easily.
For treatment of heat syndrome, medications taken in the cold. In contrast to the treatment of cold syndrome drug's drunk warm. Less toxic drugs, drink little by little but often. Add the dose gradually so that the treatment effect is achieved.
LENGTH OF TREATMENT
Herbs which still form simplicia, the treatment seems slow, but the constructive or building. This is in contrast with the results of chemical drug treatment looks quick but destructive. Therefore, drugs derived from plants should not be used for acute infectious diseases. Medicinal plants are preferred to maintain the health and treatment of chronic diseases that can not be cured with chemical drugs, or require a combination of chemical drugs with potent drugs from plants.
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