Instructions Use of Medicinal Plants

1.) Definitions:

Traditional medicine is a drug derived from plant material, minerals, animals, and or galeniknya preparations, or mixtures of such materials which have not been used in clinical data and treatment efforts by

2). Scope:

Medicinal plants mentioned in this article generally is a plant that is commonly planted or grown dipekarangan homes in residential areas, making it easy in the know with the help of images of plants mentioned in the book mi. And the term disease in mi book also covers symptoms, eg cough, fever, dizziness, etc.

3). Way of collection of medicinal plants

Origin or the area where medicinal plants are grown and how at the time of collection of medicinal plants, are very closely related to the efficacy of these medicinal plantsAs for the collection of medicinal plants include:

• All plants / herbs: Plant above ground, the following plant roots, collected when leafy plants grow up, collected when young

• Roots / radik: Collected when not germinate or after wilting

• Trunk / Lignum: Collected while growing up

• Leaves / folium: In quotes when flowering plants and fruit before cooking, collected while growing up, but not after the rain.

• Dahan: such as stems and leaves collected

• Trunk vines: collected while growing up

• Flowers / floss: picked before or immediately aetelah bloom

• Fruit / fruktus: collected when immature, or at the beginning of cooking

• Seed / cement: perfectly ripe fruit is collected during

• Skin / cortex: Collected Seang when trees grow up, or when tree roots skin loss taken

• Dorsal: collected when growing up

• Net: collected during the cooking

• Bulbs layers / tuber: collected during the growth process stops, the solid collected

• Rhizome / rhizome and root / bulbus: collected during the growth process when the process stops right pertumbi

6). Weights and measures:

Traditional Units:

• 1 teaspoon

• 1 tablespoon

• 1 cup

• 1 cup

• 1 jimpit (the size of the patient's hand)

• 1 handful (the size of the patient's hand)

• 1 finger (the size of the patient's hand)

• 1 inch (the size of the patient's hand)

• 1 catty = 16 burrows

• 1 liang = 10 qian

• 1 qian = 10 fen

International Units:

• 1 kg = 1000 grams

• 1 gram = 1000 mg

Conversion of two units:

• 1 liang = 30 grams

• 1 qian = 3 mgram

• 1 teaspoon = 5 ml

• 1 tablespoon = 20 ml

• 1 cup = 110 ml

• 1 cup = 200 ml

7). Method of processing plant material Medication:

Before it is ready to use, drug material processed first, with the aim of:

1. Clean dirt and parts that are not needed

2. Eliminate odors and flavors that are not comfortable

3. To eliminate the toxicity and negative effects

4. Adding or changing the properties

Example:

• Fresh ginger efficacious:

a. Stimulates perspiration, add warm organs in the abdomen, stop the nausea.

b. Adding warm lungs, stop coughing

c. The detoxifying plants, fish, shrimp, crabs, etc.

• Processed Ginger efficacious:

a. Adding warm organs in the abdomen, eliminating cold

b. Strengthening the pulse

c. Eliminate phlegm, add warm blood circulation, stop bleeding

5. Facilitate compounding and storage

By doing:

a. Cleaning: slicing, chopping, and destroy

b. Treatment with water:

- Wash: to remove the salt, to remove the smell

- Moisten: to easily cut

- Flying: to take a fine grain

c. Treatment with fire: roaster

d. Treatment with water and fire:

- Boiled / discuss and consider: to reduce the toxicity

- Stem: to increase the efficacy

e. Processing by other means: seedlings, yeast

f. Drying:

• Prevent spoilage by fungi or bacteria

• Drying in the sun

• In the wind-wind

• Non-drying

6). Clean dirt and substances that are not needed

7). Eliminate odor and taste yan uncomfortable

8). Boil herbs:

• Material of single plants or herbs, clean, dry, whole or sliced

• Place the pot boiling soil, ceramic or email.

• The amount of water soaking water clan materials above 30mm material

• Materials are hard boiled first 10 minutes then the others included

• Materials that easily evaporate like peppermint at last boiled 4-5 minutes before

9). Time to take medication:

• Before eating (in general)

• After a meal (a drug that stimulates the stomach)

• When an empty stomach (drugs are efficacious tonic)

• Before bed (drugs that are sedatives)

 • Drink while warm (for cold syndrome & wear thick)

• Drink while cold (for heat syndrome)

• Drink little by little (drugs that are toxic)

• Drink regularly according to schedule (for chronic diseases)

• Drink at any time (for acute disease)

• Drugs can be drunk as often as possible / replacement for the as needed.

10). Duration of treatment: 

medication in the form of constructive simplicia / build.