Indonesian Medicine-Jamu
Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia. Indonesia is a rich and wide country. The capital city of Indonesia is Jakarta. Indonesia is full of culture. Such as traditional foods, dances, clothes, arts, medicines and others. I’m going to tell you about Indonesian medicine that I search from the internet and I heard from people around me.
Indonesia has a traditional medicine called jamu. 'Back to nature' is not merely a slogan in Java and Indonesia. The visible proof is the use of traditional herbal medicine of various type of 'medical plants', either from the leaves, the fruits, the roots, the flowers or the barks, etc.
These herbal medicine had been used since the ancient time up to now, it is largely consumed by people of different level; lower, middle and upper, in the villages and in the big cities. At present one could buy easily ready made jamu packed modernly in the form of powder, pills, capsules, drinking liquid and ointments. Of course there are still jamu shops, which sell only ingredients or prepare the jamu on spot as required by buyers. Some women are roaming the street to sell jamu, is a common view across the country.
The traditional methods of making jamu such as by boiling the prepared herbal ingredients (jamu godok) still prevail in Javanese society. The popular traditional tools of making jamu are still available in many Javanese houses such as; Lumpang (small iron Mortar), pipisan, parut (grater), kuali (clay pot), etc.
There are various kinds of jamu to combat different kind of illness. In Principle there are two types of jamu; the first is jamu to maintain physical fitness and health, the locally popular are Galian Singset (to keep women body fit and slim) and Sehat Lelaki (to keep men body healthy). The second is jamu to cure various kinds of illness. Except the above, there are special jamu created with the purpose to maintain a loving family harmony. The popular products among other are Sari Rapet, which makes a women sexual organ in a good condition, as for the man the matched product is jamu Kuat Lekaki (strong man). The Javanese are also taking a great care to pregnant women during pre and postnatal period by producing the related jamu. There are also jamu for the babies.
1 comments:
First of all, I want to say that I love this article. It has an interesting topic and a well-written Jamu information in it.
But there is one little grammatical error.
You should use Present perfect continuous Tense (has/have been) instead of Past Perfect Continuous Tense (had been), in this sentence: "These herbal medicine had been used since the ancient time up to now."
Present perfect continuous is usually used for an action which began in the past and is still continuing, like in this case.
That's the only mistake that I can pointed out, the rest of the article was well written.
-Nadya Luthfiyah-
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