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.

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

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

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.

often people are tempted to have luxury goods at a cheap price because it was a lot of buying counterfeit goods, including perfume. Is it safe to use fake perfumes?

Any counterfeit goods must not have guaranteed quality perfumes especially diusapkan direct use on skin. This allows the content of these fragrances and absorbed into the body.

“Someone usually use perfume in the face, neck and wrists. All that is sensitive parts of the body, so that if the active ingredients contained in it can cause dangerous serious health risks,” said Valerie Salembier, Senior Vice President of Harper’s Bazaar , as quoted from ABCNews, Thursday (28/1/2010).

Salembier and his staff have dedicated themselves to reveal the content of counterfeit perfume for 6 years. Given some of these fake perfumes contain bacteria and antifreeze (antifreeze) as the active ingredient, as well as other materials used to balance the pH and color of the perfume.

“I had never seen a reaction from the original fragrance. But the fake perfumes can cause skin reactions dermatitis or inflammation of the skin especially for people who have a high sensitivity of the body,” says dermatologist in New York, Jeannette Graf.

Graf tells the patient admitted experiencing some discomfort, a burning feeling, a smell that is too glaring and the appearance of redness on the affected skin perfume after using it.

This incident could have happened to many people, because the perfume is very easy to obtain fake as sold on the fringes of the road or via the internet.

In addition to some people, the smell of perfume can trigger false headaches, migraines or respiratory problems. If a mixture of fake perfume is water, may not be too dangerous for the body.

Fake perfumes can not be known with certainty what the substance contained therein. Some actors are usually only write and fragrant alcohol content of perfume culprit. This can be very detrimental to consumers and included in the case of fraud.

People should know that using a fake perfume can deal with something bad. Some people sometimes do not know whether she had an allergy to a substance or not.

A cell taken from a black woman had a large contribution in the medical world. Because cell research could be developed the polio vaccine and some medications.

Henrietta Lacks’s family never thought of polio vaccine currently available is based on studies of cells that later Lacks called Hela cells.

The story begins in 1951 when Lacks went to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore U.S. for cancer of the cervix (neck of the uterus).

Before he died, doctors could take some tumor cells without the permission Lacks. These cells eventually taken to the laboratory for testing.

Apparently the researchers found that these cells can do something that had never before seen by the researchers. The cells can be taken is still alive and growing.

“I think we owe many thanks for what has been provided by Henrietta Lacks and this is absolutely no doubt. Lacks died late in 1951, but the cells are taken is still alive and the great contribution to the development of research in the whole world, “said Prof. Ranciello, as quoted from ABCNews, on Monday (1/2/2010).

In a microbiology laboratory in New York, Colombia, Professor Vincent Ranciello to experiment with a few cells that have brought the greatest medical breakthroughs in recent decades. Cells that use ordinary cells but not cells called Hela.

Tues Hela first used in research for the manufacture of polio vaccine, as well as help develop drugs to fight cancer, flu and Parkinson’s. In addition these cells are also used in gene mapping, cloning and test the effects of atomic radiation sent abroad.

Lacks own family never knew about this for 20 years. Until finally in 1970 the family knew.

While the breeding companies Hela cells billions of dollars profit, Henrietta’s family had little money and some of them are not even able to have health insurance.

“Something that has made her the greatest contribution to medical advances have transformed our anger into feeling happy and proud,” said the son of Henrietta Sunny.

Lacks family until now had never received a penny compensation or an apology for making such cells Henrietta Lacks.

To this day Hela cells has provided a valuable breakthrough in terms of medical developments such as for the development of polio vaccines, cancer drugs, flu and Parkinson’s disease

AdMedika (PT Administration Medika) were acquired Telkom through its subsidiary PT Multimedia Nusantara (Metra) after the two sides signed a Conditional Sales Purchase Agreement (CSPA).

“This year, Telkom spend as much as Rp 1 trillion for the acquisition of the company,” said Director of PT Telkom Tbk, Rinaldi Firmansyah in his statement in Jakarta, Tuesday (26/1/2010).

AdMedika Telkom will acquire a foreign capital company specializing in Electronic Health Care Network. Company incorporated January 8, 2002 and was called the largest service providers in the field of e-Health.

The company has 1.2 million members by the number of subscribers to reach 26
insurance companies, and 717 hospitals, clinics, health centers, and others.

AdMedika itself a pioneer in applying online claim processing system and a Third Party Administrator (TPA) that bridge the interests of its members, insurance and health services.

Rinaldi explains, this acquisition steps performed to achieve InSure Telkom Net (Indonesia Insurance Shared Service Platform) as the embryo of e-Health program nationally.

“This acquisition is a strategic acquisition for initiatives related to Telkom Net InSure especially for the insurance sector, starting from IT infrastructure to support e-Health and the entire insurance National e-Claim,” he explained.

InSure Net is a platform of collaboration and transactions online to improve the effectiveness, productivity, and quality service insurance institutions.

In addition, InSureNet aims to realize synergies between state-owned insurance companies and health providers.

We have five state-owned insurance is involved, among others Taspen, Social Security, Askes, Jasa Raharja, and Asabri. InSureNet will be developed in stages in which is still under development with the participation data.

Book Prescription Beneficial to Life, which was published in 1253 by Yan Yung-hou, contains some classic recipes to deal with prostate problems.

The following herbs to overcome inflammation and prostate enlargement;

1. Ingredients: sambiloto 10-15 gr, 60 gr reed roots
Usage: Boil all the ingredients with water to 600 cc 300 cc left. Strain and drink two times a day, each 150 cc.

2. Ingredients: 60 grams of fresh purslane, Centella asiatica 30 grams, 15 grams of leaves god
Usage: Boil all the ingredients with water to 800 cc 400 cc left. Strain and drink two times a day, each 200 cc.

3. Ingredients: 15 gr parasite tea leaves 5 continued life, 5 grams of ginger
Usage: Boil all ingredients with 2 cups of water until the remaining 1 cup, then strain and endapkan. Drink twice a day, each half a cup after dinner.

4. Ingredients: 10 grams of the Piao xiao, 8 g ren cents, dang gui 6 g, 6 g yuan zhi, shen-fu 6 grams, 12 grams gui ban, 6 g shan yao, 3 fruit ZAO da, gan cao 6 g, 6 g shan zhu yu
Usage: Boil all ingredients with 3 cups of water until the remaining 1 cup. Drink twice a day, each glass. Material can be boiled over once again.

5. Ingredients: 20 gr rehmannia glutinosa, 10 g sweet potatoes China, 10 g dogwood tree, alisma Plantago 6 g, 6 g tuckahoe, 6 g tree peony, cinnamon 3 g, 10 g achyranthes bidentata, plantains 10 grams, 3 grams Aconitum.
Usage: Boil all ingredients with 3 cups of water until the remaining 1 cup. Drink twice a day, each glass. Material can be boiled over once again.
Note: The pot for boiling should not be made from aluminum. Choose one of the ingredients and do regularly. Stay consult your doctor or experienced herbalis.

Lifestyle and lack of physical activity in modern times as more and more has been blamed for more and more children in the Western world, overweight or obese. Some research concluded that ever done it.

In 1998 then, researchers conducted tests on 303 children from six different schools to do the sprint as far as 20 meters. The study was repeated again in 2008, which followed a 10-year-old child. Result, the researchers found surprising conclusions.

Researchers found significant differences, and worrying. Research Team Leader Gavin Sandercock said, the measure of obesity alone is not enough to see the health of children in the future. It requires a monitoring program of physical activity of children.

“We see the present generation is the generation that spent time in front of the television, whether it be computer or TV. Schools should try harder, but the lack of structured activity is a problem, “he said as reported by the Telegraph.

Meanwhile, President of the Faculty of Health University of Essex, Professor Alan Maryon Davis, said the company should pay attention to the physical activity of children, given the focus on treatment of obesity is more linked to chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.

The British Government itself has made various efforts to address the issue of obesity in children, including the campaign “Kick-Started a Lifestyle” is so intensified since earlier this year. Unfortunately, the campaign has not likewise found positive results.

Known, more than nine million children in the age of six years and over are obese. That’s according to a report from Dennis Bier Pediatric Academic Society (PAS). Since 1970, obesity often increases among children, until now the numbers continue to soar doubled in children aged 2-5 years and 12-19 years of age, even tripled in children aged 6-11 years.

Meanwhile, obesity in children has become a serious problem in Indonesia. From research conducted in fourteen major cities in Indonesia, the incidence of obesity in children classified as relatively high, between 10-20 percent with the increasing value until now.

The definition of obesity, according to the Indonesian Pediatric Association (IDAI), is a state of body mass index (BMI) a child who is above the 95th percentile on growth charts developed children according to gender.

Until now, the cause of high rates of obesity in children, especially in Indonesia, is still confusing. Many people are expecting a strong result of the influence of unhealthy snacks with high calorie content, so that children tend to prefer to snack rather than eat at home.

Pediatric research from the University of Indonesia Faculty of Medicine, Dr. RSUPN Cipto Mangunkusumo Damayanti R Sharif SpA (K) shows that obesity often occurs in the older groups like snack. Unfortunately, the scientific explanation of this is still confusing.

Until now doctors have to be satisfied with the predicate “multikausal” as the cause of obesity, it is very multidimensional. Not only occur in socio-economic groups is high, often socio-economic in the medium to lower middle income.

In addition, the scientists also agree that obesity in children tends to occur due to environmental factors than genetic factors. Epidemisnya reason is since the 1970s until the 2000s was a time that is too short to change the genetic structure to cause changes in current patterns of obesity prevalence. Obesity due to familial hyperlipidemia did not lead to a very high rate like this.

What about social factors? Knowledgeable of the medical community that obesity in children has become a serious problem in Indonesia and in the world. Since obesity occurs because imbalans energy, the approach taken is to balance the diet with play or exercise habits.

Thus the complexity of this aim to be achieved, changes made to socially and large-scale. Medical literature that there was no one with the right to include the best way to make changes in this field. In other words, still needs further study in Indonesia about how to prevent obesity early on.

Closing the fast-food restaurants or snack builders discipline in primary schools is not necessarily as easy as turning the palm of the hand. Habits of good must be inculcated in children from an early age. The parents should be disciplined and “heart” to educate school children to walk or ride a bike, rather than be taken to fetch.

Not good for children to comply often eat at fast food restaurants, cultural eating fruits and vegetables should be socialized early, fairy tales before bed is good back story cultivated with Popeye and spinach, or the story of how the process of an egg can be fried chicken with super – thick fat and crispy skin of a typical fast-food restaurant.

No less important is the role of schools to add sports schedules and provide a better medium for children to “play” and exercise. The school also is a key to discipline dozens of merchants who serve foods are not healthy.

It is true that “snack” more accurately classified as a habit, though it was obstructed after all, the kids will still find builders pocket everywhere. Thus, avoiding the campaign must be very regular snack heralded. The scientists actually suggesting the schools to provide 30 minutes of free time per day to perform cardiovascular activities.