TRADITIONAL HERBAL REMEDY OF INDONESIA - JAMU

By Ridwan

Jamu, “the ancestor heritage” a traditional herbal remedy of Indonesia, trusted by the peoples of Indonesia as a traditional remedy with a helpful ability. This herbal remedy had been used since centuries ago until this time.

Preventing the traditional herbal remedy that called Jamu for the several centuries, not a slogan only. It proved by believing of Indonesian peoples to this traditional product. it is consumed by people from the various economic and educational levels, children or teenagers, man and woman, old man or young, in the villages and even in the big cities. Jamu, is the same as other traditional herbal remedy from other country, it use the various types of 'medical plants', either from the leaves, the fruits, the roots, the flowers or the barks, etc. Those pieces of materials with an according dose then it boil in the water. Let it cold and ready to serve.

Jamu in Indonesia usually sale in package / sachet, bottle package or even direct sales by person to person (it called jamu gendong). Some are consumed by drinking it and some are for outside application by rub it to the sickness/wound area.

There are various kinds of jamu to combat different kind of illness. there are two types of jamu; the first is jamu to maintain physical fitness and health, to keep slim body for woman or to keep body healhy for man. There are jamu for restoring virginity . to keep a man have a strong sexual ability, to cure cold, etc.

Are you interest with this traditional herbal remedy of Indonesia that called Jamu?.