Long road to Saintifikasi
Health News June 9th, 2010
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.
