The use of medicinal plants, or better known herbs or herb actually has long been recognized by our society. Although now many herbs are manufactured and packaged in a modern way. But the tradition of drinking herbs or herbal traditionally there are still many Indonesian society, especially in the villages.
It has been widely proven efficacy and efficacy Herbs and herbal. While more economical, herbs also have side effects that are very small. Nevertheless, there are still many people who doubt the efficacy of herbal. Admittedly, the healing power of herbs and herbs are not as powerful as chemical drugs. Treatment with herbs and herbal take a long time.
There are several factors that cause why herbs and herbal does not work effectively. Presentation of false, incorrect time drinking, improper dosage, and the impatience of the wearer are the factors that cause the herb is not effective. Prof. HM Hembing Wijayakusuma in his "Complete Herbal Remedy Conquered Illness" saying things that must be considered in taking the herbs as follows:
- Wash herbs botanicals (herbs) with water to clean.
- Immediately use fresh herbs that have been clean for treatment. If the material is large or thick, preferably cut into thin slices so that when boiling substances contained therein easily go out and seep into the cooking water. For herbal stored, first dry after being washed for durability and prevent spoilage by bacteria and fungi. Dry matter (botanicals) are also more easily mashed for pulverized (powder). Drying can be directly in the sun or wear protective. It can also be aerated, depending on the thickness or water content.
- Pour immediately materials that have been used as a powder (powder) with hot or boiling water.
- For hard materials and difficult to extract, preferably crushed and boiled in advance about 10 minutes before entering the other ingredients.
- Use clean fresh water and does not contain hazardous chemicals to boil. Make sure it's enough so that all the ingredients of medicinal submerged about 3 cm.
- To boil the medicinal ingredients, use containers made of earthenware (ceramics), enamel pot, or a pot shard. Do not use metal containers, such as iron, aluminum, and brass. Metal-containing substances and potassium ferrycianide iron trichloride. These substances pose deposits of water in treating the disease. During the boiling, not too often unscrew the container so that the content of essential oil is not easily lost.
- Use according to the fire that boiled herbs.
- Small fire: Use to boil the herbs are efficacious as a tonic, such as ginseng and ling zhi mushrooms that active ingredients are absorbed into the cooking water (boiled about 2 hours).
- Small fire: the long boiling time also used for medicinal herbs and herbs that contain toxins, such as crown god for the content of toxins is reduced.
- Large fire: Use for boiling herbs or botanicals are efficacious diaforetik (sweat) and contains many essential oils, such as mint, clove and cinnamon. Once boiling, add the ingredients and boiled briefly. By the way , the content of volatile is not much lost due to excessive evaporation process.
- If there are no other provisions, boiling considered finished when the water remaining half of the original amount of water, for example 800 cc to 400 cc. If the ingredients are boiled mostly of hard materials, such as seeds or stem the cooking water left over a third, for example, 600 cc to 200 cc.
- If it contains the dry ingredients, generally dose (dose) half of the amount of fresh material. For example, the use of leaf fresh scoop use 90 grams and 15 grams when dry.
- Make sure the dose of medicinal plants in accordance with the recommended. Generally, one prescription of medicinal plants are divided for 2 times drinks a day. The first stew the remaining pulp can be boiled again for 1 drink in the afternoon or evening.
- Drink decoction of medicinal plant extracts in the warm and thereafter wear thick clothes or blankets. However, for certain types of herbs, such as betel nut decoction should be drunk chilled to avoid kotraksi with gastric cause nausea, vomiting, and stomach cramps.
- Generally, herbal decoction taken before meals to be easily absorbed. However, for potions that can stimulate the stomach, drink after a meal. Drinking potions are efficacious as an amplifier (tonic) at the time of the morning on an empty stomach. For herb efficacious as a sedative, for example, for insomnia, drink before bedtime.
- Perform regular treatment. Remember, herbal treatment requires patience because it does not directly feel the benefits, but are konstruktirf (repair / build). The effects of chemical drugs did seem fast, but it is destructive. Because of its nature, the herb is not recommended as the primary treatment of infectious diseases, acute (medadak), such as dengue fever, vomiting, and others who must get immediate medical attention. Medicinal plants are preferred for health maintenance and the treatment of chronic diseases (chronic).
- Herbal treatments can be combined with chemical drugs, particularly for difficult to cure chronic diseases, such as cancer in order to obtain results more effective treatment. Rules taking herbal medicine about 2 hours after the use of chemical drugs.
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