Widespread use of Traditional Medicine

Interest of people to consume herbal medicine and traditional medicine continues to rise. In general, they assume a more natural medicinal plants and thus more secure. In Indonesia alone, according to the Health Research Association in 2010 made the Ministry of Health showed that 59.12 percent of the population never eating herbs and 95 percent of those admitted to the health benefits of traditional ingredients. Types of medicinal plants of the most widely cultivated himself to be a herb such as ginger (50.36 percent), kencur (48 percent), ginger (39 percent), meniran (13 percent), and the pace (11 percent). The Government continues to encourage the use of herbs. One of them by Law No.36 of 2009 which states that the traditional health care services included in 17 different health measures are required to be prepared. According Abidinsyah Siregar, director of community development of traditional health care, alternative and complementary, in the year 2011 there are 40 hospitals in Indonesia that integrate traditional or complementary health care. "Hospitals that are programmed there had been 44, but pretty much the initiative of private hospitals include traditional pengobotan. Maybe it's been more than 100 hospitals," he told a media event education Healthy Life with Herbal held by PT.Deltomed in Jakarta, Thursday (12/7). Although Indonesia has berlimbah medicinal plant raw materials, but herbal medicine through research and innovation remains a big challenge. Indeed, we already recognize the benefits of the overall 9000 35 000 medicinal plants medicinal plants in the country, but we have standardized herbal new 38 new species and six fitofarmaka that we have. Fitofarmaka is a group that has been proven to be effective after a clinical trial. "Nonconventional medicine will continue to be encouraged to be studied, tested, and studied so it has scientific basis," he said. Safety testing of herbal in the herbal industry is very important because not all herbs safe. "Before the crop is marketed through preclinical drug should thus be referred to as a standardized herbal medicine," said dr.Abrijanto, business development manager PT.Deltomed. Community is expected to be careful in choosing a traditional medicine, especially if do not have a registration number does not include descriptions BPOM and drugs in the Indonesian language. "Every herb imported into Indonesia must have written in Indonesian," he said. The use of traditional medicine is expected to replace the use of conventional medicine that is currently 95 percent of raw materials are imported.