BENEFITING FROM PLANTS FOR HERBAL MEDICINE AND HEALTH TREATMENT

As today’s awareness of using non-chemical elements for health-caring increases, many people try to go back to nature and learn through it. They hunt for plants that have safer disease-curing and health-caring elements, especially in many tropical countries. Thus, medical plants are now getting more popular.

Basically, we can benefit from various plants grown in this earth, especially from the leaves, the fruits, the roots, the flowers or the barks. In China, Indonesia, and other Asian countries, traditional medicine and health treatment done with herbs has been applied since the ancient time up to now. Uniquely, this kind of natural method is largely used by people of different level; lower, middle, and upper, be it in the villages and in the big cities.

Almost all diseases and health treatments can be done using medical plants. For diseases like diarrhea, cancer, and fever, herbs can be used to heal, or at least to reduce them naturally. Whereas, for health treatments like acne prevention, skin-protection against mosquitoes, and sea-sick prevention can be done using the useful method.

However, many people find difficulty in collecting some certain plants for their specific disease curing-effort and health treatment. This is because some diseases require rare plants, which only grow in some countries. Thus, as technology develops, many companies around the world have initiative to produce traditional medicine and healthy products in modern forms, such as powder, pills, capsules, drinking liquid, and ointments.

For those who are not satisfied with such forms, still they can get ingredients from many shops, sometimes with some more amount of money. Luckily, in certain country like Indonesia, natural ingredients for medicine and health treatments are easily found in traditional and modern form. Some ingredients are also available, mostly in traditional markets.