Classification of Traditional Medicine

Traditional medicine is the ingredient in the form of plant material, animal material, mineral materials, preparation (galenik) or mixtures of these materials, which for generations has been used for treatment based on experience.

Natural medicines that exist in Indonesia today can be categorized into three, namely herbs, standardized herbal medicine, and fitofarmaka.
1. Jamu (empirical based herbalmedicine)

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Jamu is a traditional medicine that has traditionally provided, which contains the entire plant material into constituent herbal medicine, hygiene (contamination free) and used traditionally. Herbal medicine has been used by generations for decades, Maybe even hundreds of years, In general, This type of recipe is made with reference to the ancestral heritage. Herbal form does not require scientific evidence to clinical, but simply by empirical evidence from generation to generation.

2. Standardized Herbal Medicines (Scientific based herbal medicine)

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Traditional medicine is presented of the extract natural materials that can be medicinal plants, animals, and minerals. To carry out this process requires more complex equipment and expensive, hard work that supports the knowledge and skills of making extracts. In addition to the production process with advanced technology, this type has been supported by scientific evidence of the studies pre-clinical (animal testing) with standarized nutritious ingredients, standardized extracts of medicinal plants manufacture, standard hygienic manufacture of traditional medicines, and toxicity tests akutmaupun Chronic.

3. Phytopharmaca (basedherbal Clinical medicine)

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Phytopharmaca is a traditional medicine from natural materials that can be compared to modern medicine because the manufacturing process that has been standardized, supported by scientific evidence to clinical trials in humans with syarati lmiah meet the criteria, test protocols that have been approved, the competent executive, meets ethical principles, the execution of the test qualified. With clinical trials will further convince the medical profession to use herbal medicine in health service facilities. Communities can also be encouraged to use herbal medicine for its benefits clearly with the scientific evidence.