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Wagita ten years  selling herbal medicine in addition to carrying a printing office in the region Palmerah, Central Jakarta. The clientele is mostly night workers usually directly mentioning their grievances and surrendered to Wagita concoction.

A young man who had just finished breakfast suddenly shouted, “feverish, Mom!” Without a lot of questions, Wagita immediately took the glass and poured the rice kencur godokan betel leaf. In addition to the feverish Wagita, there is also a book of herbal medicine for sore pains, colds, and ulcer.

For the community, herbal or traditional medicine that Indonesia was not really new. Potion of plants, animal materials, mineral materials that hereditary used for treatment based on experience.

Wagita, for example, do not know for certain ingredients in medicinal plants and how racikannya workings of the body. However, she believed that natural ingredients and proven efficacious. Dozens of years she drank to get rid of sore herbal pains.

He learned to make herbal medicine at the age of 15 years of Javanese women in the workplace. He just told the materials and how to make and tasted. “Everything noted in the liver,” he said. He taught his son oral herbal mix.

On a larger scale, not a lot of herbal medicine industry through praklinik and clinical trials. New fitofarmaka and 5 of 12 types of standardized herbs.

Basically, there are three kinds of herbal products, namely the traditional herbal medicine, Herbal medicine standardized (there is standardization of raw materials), and fitofarmaka (have gone through preclinical testing and clinical trials with conventional drugs).

Senior Manager of Research and Development of PT Mustika Ratu Devita Agus said clinical trials would cost billions of dollars. Developed in the company of about 200 medicinal plants for preventive measures and health promotion. Customized packaging such as form tea extract, and capsules.

Marginalized

Although there has been a long time in the middle of society, in fact herbal medicine was still in the outskirts of the health care system. Unlike in China, Korea, Japan, and India, the treatment in the country is still dominated by conventional therapy. In China there have been integrative therapies (conventional and herbal).

Organic Chemistry researchers from Indonesia Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Leonardus Broto Sugeng Kardono, said that even though herbs have long existed, inventory, documentation, and development is relatively slow compared to other countries. In the past, making an oral herbal medicine derived. In fact, Indonesia is very big potential. There are at least 30,000 potential medicinal plants. A total of 3000 of which were recorded and about 300 are commonly used materials, such as turmeric, ginger, ginger, Centella asiatica, and sambiloto.

According to the Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Medical Doctors Herbal Hardhi institution, the doctors point of view is formed by conventional medical standards. Although therapy preventive, promotive, rehabilitative, curative, and palliative actually can be developed, including using herbs from the science standards of service and high security.

Herbal medicine also has a considerable market potential. Chairman of the Joint Association of Indonesian Jamu Entrepreneur and President Director Jamu Nyonya Meneer, Charles Saerang said, sales of herbal medicines in Indonesia in 2010 targeted Rp 10 trillion. Realization of the year 2009, which amounted to Rp 8.5 trillion. There are 240 to 400 types of herbs that circulated in the country and 80 species of which are also exported to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Saudi Arabia.

Saintifikasi medicinal

In order to popularize the traditional herbal medicine, herbal medicine menyaintifikasi government seeks to involve the doctors. “The doctor health icon that can lift the dignity of herbal medicine and its use,” he said.

The program was announced Minister of Health saintifikasi Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih in Kendal regency, Central Java, on Wednesday (6 / 1).

Head of Research and Development of Health Ministry of Health Purwandianto Agus said, saintifikasi it gives the scientific basis of herbal medicine use of empirically-based research service. A number of doctors trained to do qualitative research related to the use of herbal medicine in the scope of efforts to preventive, promotive, rehabilitative, and palliative by their patients.

Herbal materials selected by the Commission Saintifikasi Jamu. One source is the Central Research and Development of Medicinal Plants and Traditional Medicine in Tawangmangu. Hall has had 100 formularium the praklinik test.

In addition to Doctor Herbal Medical Association has stood Indonesia in June 2009 and has been recognized by the Executive Board of the Indonesian Doctors Association. Society is also preparing the curriculum for physician herbal attracted into that area and it is hoped will form herbal clinics.

Member Association of Medical Doctors Herbal Jateng Indonesia Branch dr Kresnowaty Lily said, in addition to conventional medicine, these doctors will also have the expertise to become a doctor of herbal.

Once deemed competent, the doctor can issue a prescription of herbal medicine in accordance with the guidelines issued by Board of Health Research and Development, Ministry of Health. “These guidelines contain any herbs that can be used to assist conventional medicine,” he said.

Saintifikasi herbs, Leonardus says, became important in the open market. Do not let the medicinal Indonesia overshadowed in its own land.

Scientists in Cambridge, England, showing artificial pancreas could serve to regulate blood sugar levels in children with type 1 diabetes. The results of this research is a step forward in diabetes research.

In these trials, the scientists combine sensors “real time” which measures glucose levels with insulin pumps that deliver so that they can control blood sugar levels overnight. This will significantly reduce the risk of hypoglycemia (blood sugar too low).

Type 1 diabetes occurs when the pancreas produces only a little insulin or none at all. Without insulin circulating in the blood, the sugar will not be able to enter body cells and will remain in the blood. To replace the insulin the body does not produce it, type 1 diabetics rely on insulin medication or injections.

In research conducted in the UK, 17 children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes involved in research for 54 nights in the hospital. In general, glucose monitoring devices and insulin pumps are used in this research is widely used and sold freely.

However, for the patient’s condition monitoring system can be deeper, the researchers made a sophisticated algorithm to calculate the amount of insulin delivered based on current glucose levels (real time).

Researchers then measured the work of artificial pancreas to control glucose levels compared with patients who use insulin pumps. In general, artificial pancreas is able to keep blood sugar within normal levels around 60 percent, compared with the insulin pump that only 40 percent.

Since the late 1970s, doctors had to transplant the pancreas. If the transplant is successful, a lot of people with diabetes it does not take insulin or need to frequently measure blood sugar.

However, transplantation is not always successful. In addition to the risks associated with any surgery, there is also a reaction to rejection of new organs. Therefore, the doctors recommend the use of medications and lifestyle changes to control diabetes.

Hopefully, with the success of artificial pancreas test this, open the hope for people with diabetes avoid the dangers of high blood sugar level fluctuations

green algae is very good to deal with dengue hemorrhagic fever patients. These plants are able to accelerate healing and improve the patient’s health condition.

This was revealed in a study with researchers from Hospital Bhakti Karya Bogor, Association of Medical Specialist Internist (PAPDI) Bogor branch, and the Faculty of Human Ecology, Bogor Agricultural University who disosialisasi in a press conference on Thursday (4/2/2010).

A total of 82 patients included severe hemorrhagic fever in the study and divided into two groups: treatment and control groups.

Principal investigator of the RS Teruna Adi Karya Bhakti said, both groups received standard therapy as directed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the provision of fluids, salt body, and balanced nutritional foods. So far, dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) there is no cure or vaccine. So far, patients need to be severe if the blood transfusion, albumin, or plasma. Sometimes given painkillers or oxygen.

In the study therapy plus treatment group of green algae extract (chlorella) in the form of syrup as much as 30 ml per day. After that, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and platelet sufferers checked daily until symptom-free subjects DHF and platelets rose to more than 100,000. The results are statistically analyzed.

Result, the use of green algae are able to significantly accelerate healing, improve vascular permeability, and increased platelets.

In the treatment group, the average healing period of 2.76 days and 4.43 days in the control group. Increased platelet and hemoglobin and hematocrit decreased more rapidly in the treatment group.

He said dengue is a disease is self-limited. In the dynamics often have a fever with bleeding disorders, can even develop into katastrofik (renjatan syndrome, dengue). This is because the ability to reproduce the virus (viral replication) high because of the reverse transcriptase enzyme assistance. When attacked by DBD, interferon alpha that serves to protect cells from viruses are also not formed.

Green algae is suspected to accelerate healing by inhibiting the enzyme reverse transcriptase so that pressing the multiplication of the virus.

In addition, green algae also increases nonspecific and specific immunity and stimulate bone marrow production functions that play a role in platelet formation. Green algae that contain nucleic acid also serves to form immune.

Adi said that, if the fever reaches 39 degrees celsius and platelets below 100,000, preferably to the hospital immediately. In many cases, the patient was not aware he was hit by dengue. “Once the fever and dizziness and little free medication and feel better. In fact, the virus continued to multiply, and open the possibility of more acute illness or, even, in shock, “he said.

In addition to food, safe-green algae are given to assist faster healing and avoid keakutan.

Other researchers, Hartati Yekti Effendi, teaching field, especially Pathophysiology of Public Health Nutrition at the IPB, say, the handling of DHF is not enough to cure the patient. Keep in mind also the handling of vector, the mosquito Aedes aegypti.

“Mosquitoes that bite people ever going to be vectors of disease spread during the two months that the mosquito’s lifetime. Flight mileage of about 20 houses so far, “he said

A team of middle-profit making “artificial pancreas” for the people with type 1 diabetes. The project aims to create a tool that can check blood sugar levels throughout the day and then automatically deliver insulin when needed without any intervention from the patient or other family members. The team consisted of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and a medical equipment manufacturer, Animas.

The Company had previously made Animas insulin pump. Now the company is working with JDRF to create a wireless system monitoring tool that combines continuous glucose, insulin pumps, and sophisticated software.

If successful, it would free the people with type 1 diabetes from having to check the blood sugar constantly and inject insulin. “Greatness, the two tools that can later be ‘communicating’ automatically. Both instruments had been available so far, but working independently, “said Chief Alan Lewis as President of JDRF.

JDRF parties became partners will contribute knowledge and expertise. Foundation’s budgeted 8 million U.S. dollars to the project for three years.

Device control
So far, the main difficulty of building software to manage both the tool so that a single unit automatically.

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that makes your body make mistakes destroy cells in the pancreas as the insulin-producing. As a result, the body can not break down and use sugar.

If not resolved, blood vessels and nerves slowly damaged and organ failure that led to the death of an infected.

Type 1 diabetes is mostly in children. The presence of tools that will ease the burden on the sufferers and their families.

So far, every night the parents should check the blood sugar their children so as not to wake up with very low blood sugar. Quality of parent and family life, too distracted.

How safe is a commercial passenger aircraft of the many hazards of radiation scattered in the sky? Researchers began to commemorate the passengers exposed to the danger of radiation exposure when there is lightning. Fortunately, the condition was rare.

Lightning storm, – the occasional plane encountered -, according to researchers more dangerous than the threat of turbulence. Strength of radiation from lightning is thought to be the strength of gamma rays is higher than X-rays

Researchers found if the passenger plane near the lightning flashed through exposure to radiation equivalent to 400 times more powerful than X-rays

X-ray exposure is not a disease but its impact is very big because it can reduce the body’s immune makes someone so prone to disease. X-ray exposure can trigger even suspected cancer risk and make stunted fetal growth.

As reported by LiveScience, Sunday (31/1/2010), exposure to radiation in the air is still mysterious, but expected more in the direction of gamma rays. It is conceivable, exposed to X-rays dangerous enough let alone hit by gamma-ray exposure has a very large penetration in the human body.

But fortunately the plane incident lightning storm passed very, very small. The pilot itself will usually avoid flying in the path of a thunderstorm.

Passenger aircraft will only be exposed to high radiation doses is if the plane happened to be near the origin of lightning or a flash of gamma rays, but that is not how often. A burst of radiation is also very fast and quite far, a few hundred yards from the clouds.

“We know that commercial aircraft are usually struck by lightning only once or twice a year,” said Joe Dwyer, a professor of physics and space sciences from Florida Tech.

“But we do not know is how often the planes are in a place like that and just received a high radiation dose. We believe it is rare, but more research is needed to answer this question definitively,” he continued.

Researchers did not measure high levels of radiation directly to the aircraft. Instead, they estimate the radiation based on satellite observation and X-rays and gamma rays.

With the orbiting satellite data, researchers studying terrestrial gamma ray flashes (Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes / TGFs), which is a mysterious phenomenon that appears at the same level with the aircraft. Researchers do not know why TGFs may appear and are anticipated during the electrical storm.

This research has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Researchers agree the need for further research about the radiation threat to passenger planes.

Current health practitioners are also very carefully done with X-ray detection is only done if very desperate because of health hazards that will be returned to the front.