HERBAL MEDICINE: SPECIAL QUALITY PHALAERIA MACROCARPA FOR BLOOD CANCER

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BRAIN CANCER
One year ago, Ismail Saleh experiences inspection many times in some hospitals in Jakarta. In the early of March 2004, for example, the man who 79 years is investigated magnetically Resonance imaging (MRI) in Coast Hospital Respects Kapok. MRI functions to detect position and tumor measure in brain. Mantam, that news chief judge got brain cancer.
Result of MRI shows, there is bloated of brain tend to direction of type tumor lymphoma malignant. Initially his family keeps information about the disease. Because, worries influences emotion Ismail. When informed that he is hit by brain cancer. Ismail never expecting got that disease. I am never think before, why I got brain cancer. Though I always active, happy, likes humor, not stress, and often writes article in various medias a period,” said Ismail saleh.
Ear CorkEnd the year of 2004 the condition of his health is not going better. Graduated The military Law College experiences body balance trouble, communications focus, and sound track. He is often fallen down from bed and bathroom. That Is Why Ismail Saleh soon is brought to Hospital Gleneagles in Singapore.
Diagnose medical doctor over there mentions Ismail Saleh to have an affair disorients, confusion, headache, and disability to stand up and sits.

HERBAL MEDICINE: BLOOD CANCER CELL SUICIDE STYLE

Piece life after retired remains mirage for Syafril Roy. Result of inspection of health in RS Persahabatan, Rawamangun Jakarta Timur, shows that he got blood cancer and diabetes mellitus. Imagines death likely presents in the eyes. consumption of Phalaeria Macrocarpa regularly becomes healing fulcrums Syahril.
Initially leukocyte rate bounces up until 60000, and always rising until 100000. sugar rate in blood 340 mmHg. The man 65 years frequently feels headache. Cool sweat flows down. Suggestion to take back bone marrow is refused. One month after routine drinks ingredient Phalaeria Macrocarpa number leukocyte reduces to 74000. repair of the condition also is followed stable of sugar rate in blood.
The healing not just incident. From back of wall laboratories, Prof Dr Akio Mimura from Biotechnology Department, University Yamanashi, Japan, successfully opens clue. He identifies anticarcinogenetic active compound from fruit and Phalaeria Macrocarpa cochlea, proven can depress growth of cell leukemia in vitro. Anticipated the compound can induce process apoptosis.
According To Dr Ahkam Subroto, biotechnology researcher LIPI, apoptosis is an death active program of a real normal cell Biotechnology ”in laymen language usually is conceived of suicide process ( suicide),” says Ahkam.
SuicideApoptosis is keyword in cancer healing. At cancer patient, cells do not die and continuous multiplies itself. It cause by two things: deviation in process of bisection or trouble at system apoptosis. Akio believes, Phalaeria Macrocarpa contains mitosis resistor compound and triggers process to suicide/apoptosis at cancer cells. Mean member of Thymelaeaceae set of cancer cell to do suicide.
That happy news goes along with research Drs. Vivi Lisdawati Apt Msi, researcher from Litbang department of public health. “Positive indication Phalaeria Macrocarpa because have positive indication the character of sitoksis to break cancer cell,” says Vivi Alumnus pharmacy department Indonesia university. Same as Akio, Vivi also does work of indium vintro, applies mouse as experiment animal. The difference is she applies cell L1210 isolated from spleen. Apparently, 50% cell leukemia in the animal spleen is hampering after dropped by extraction Phalaeria Macrocarpa good news to leukemia patient and other cancer. Research of course done at blood cancer. However, did not close applicable possibility at other cancer disease if process apoptosis is suicide happened.
Apparently besides anticancer, Phalaeria Macrocarpa also functioning as antioxidant and ant diabetes. Research of Phalaeria Macrocarpa as antioxidant also does by akio. He successfully finds fact, in 100 Phalaeria Macrocarpa kernel grams there is mean 374 compound magnesium antioxidant. This higher rate compared to antioxidant rate from various tea types, herb.
Antioxidant is not directly correlate to ant cancer. “Antioxidant stands in free radical arrest. Cancer relates to life style and complicated factor,” says Ahkam. However, heaping of free radical can become one of cancer stimulate. here the role of antioxidant as preventive for free radical. Besides anticancer and usage antioxidant of Phalaeria Macrocarpa as anti diabetes also attract enthusiasm of the researchers. Research in LIPI has proved, Phalaeria Macrocarpa extract hamper glycosidase enzyme job activity in indium vintro.
Glycosidase enzyme is enzyme contributing in distorting of carbohydrate becomes glucose. With stop of the enzyme activity, hence glucose rate in manageable blood in normal boundary. For therapy world of Phalaeria Macrocarpa, research is valuable finding. The way towards scientific verification increasingly wide open for phalaeria macrocarpa.

INDONESIAN JAMU
A Blend of Bio- and Cultural Diversity


“Jamu, Madame, Sir!” That’s how a slim, young woman carrying a heavy basketful of bottles tied up on her back greets her clients from door to door at a Jakarta neighborhood every morning. The lady, wearing the Javanese traditional dress called kebaya and batik sarong, is selling the traditional Indonesian herbal medicine known as jamu.
Indonesia has the world’s largest biodiversity reservoir with around 140 million hectares of rainforest. Therefore, nature is deeply rooted in the life of the people culturally, socially and economically. Traditional herbal medicine derived from leaves, fruits, roots, seeds, flowers or tree barks, has been widely used since ancient times.
There are thousands of jamu ladies roaming Indonesia’s narrow streets and kampongs (hamlets), offering a glass of freshly prepared herbal medicine, which is usually mixed with raw egg and honey. In addition to the ‘mobile’ jamu ladies, there are also many jamu stalls almost everywhere.
Apart from homemade fresh jamu, the jamu vendors also offer herbal medicine produced by jamu manufacturers. At present, one could easily buy ready-made jamu packed in powder form, as pills, capsules, tonics, oil and ointments. Jamu is used to treat a wide variety of ailments ranging from fatigue and headache to malaria. It also supplies the body with vitamin C, cleanses the blood, keeps the body in good shape, and makes the skin smooth.
Jamu consumers come from every class of society, from the poor to the rich, those who live in villages or those who live in large cities. Indonesians like to consume jamu due to its availability and comparatively cheap price. Jamu is usually consumed in liquid form and in some cases is applied externally such as on the skin or forehead. The traditional methods of making jamu such as by boiling the prepared herbal ingredients still prevail in the country. The popular traditional tools of making jamu such as by using a clay pot and grater are still available in many families.
As part of the national family welfare program, each neighborhood has been encouraged to have a medicinal plants garden to supply residents who need to treat their family members. The garden is also aimed at preserving the medicinal plants and to pass on the traditional knowledge to younger generations.
Among common herbs used in jamu prescriptions are ginger (Zingiber officinale), wild ginger (Curcuma cautkeridza), turmeric (Curcuma domestica), greater galingale (Kaempferia galanga), kumis kucing (Orthosiphon aristatus), bengle (Zingiber bevifalium), secang (Caesalpinia sappan hinn), brotowali (Tiospora rumpii boerl), calamondin (Citrae aurantifalia sivingle), cinnamon (Gijeyzahyza glabra), and alang-alang (Gramineae).
Traditional Cosmetics

In principle there are several types of jamu. For example, one type maintains physical fitness and health, and another type treats various kinds of illness. Jamu for babies is also available, usually in oil form. There are also herbal cosmetics to maintain the natural beauty of women, and special jamu for pregnant women during the pre- and post-natal periods.
An estimated 80 percent of the Indonesian population has tried jamu at some stage of their lives. For Indonesian women, jamu is considered essential to keep them young and beautiful for their husbands. Drinking jamu is a must for women after giving birth, although some might hate its bitter taste. A special treatment for women in their post-natal period is usually a combination of massage, body wraps and tonics to help them regain their figures and eliminate stretch marks.
Almost every woman is concerned that her physical appearance always remains slim and beautiful with an alluring bright smiling face. As a Javanese idiom says, “Ngadi Sarira”, or “to maintain the body to be always in a perfect condition is of prime importance.”
In Javanese culture, the ladies of the royal families have a reputation of inheriting the beauty of goddesses from paradise. Nowadays, many women from outside the palace walls know some secrets of the royal palace culture of Ngadi Sarira. Jamu is widely used to give an inner beauty, which is thought to result from good physical health.
Some jamu products are consumed directly by drinking or eating it. For instance, eating kepel fruit (a brown fruit of a chicken egg size) gives the body - and even the urine - a fragrant odor similar to that of the fruit itself. Some traditional cosmetics include bedak dingin (a cool powder made from tendered rice with special ingredients such as pandanus and kenanga flower) and lulur bathing powder for scrubbing. Finally, a hair oil called cemceman, made of coconut oil with pandanus, kenanga flower, jeruk purut etc. is applied.
Rich in Biodiversity and Cultures
Indonesia is the world’s second richest megacenter of biodiversity, after Brazil. The country, comprising over 17,000 islands, covers only 1.3 per cent of the earth’s surface, but it contains almost 15 per cent of all higher plants and a significant share of the world’s fauna. According to the country study on biodiversity in 1993, the number of species of flowering plants in Indonesia is between 25,000 and 30,000, and 10 per cent of the total flora of Indonesia is thought to have medicinal value. Around 40 million people depend directly on the country’s biodiversity, and the communities make use of around 6000 plant species.
With a population of over 220 million people, Indonesia has at least 336 different cultures, speaking more than 250 languages. Thanks to this diverse culture, Indonesia has many different varieties of traditional medicine, depending on the local geography, ethnic groups and the historical processes of the communities. However, jamu, which originated in Java, and probably dates back to the construction of the world-famous Borobudur Temple in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, is the most wide-spread form of traditional medicine in the country.
In the course of time, jamu spread not only to the whole island of Java and to neighboring Bali, but also to many of the other islands. As a result of the continuous exchange of information between various cultural groups, traditional systems of medicine are not static but dynamic, regularly incorporating new knowledge and uses.
While all the various systems are based on more or less the same plant material, users are limited by what is available in their own locality and the existing knowledge, according to an article titled “Biodiversity, traditional medicine and the sustainable use of indigenous medicinal plants in Indonesia” written by Walter R. Erdelen, Kusnaka Adimihardja, H. Moesdarsono and Sidik. To cure liver infections, for instance, the Indonesian Sundanese ethnic group eats Curcuma domestica, or turmeric, as lalab (a fresh vegetable salad), while the country’s other large ethnic group, the Javanese, use boiled, dried turmeric to treat the same ailment.
Untapped Market

Nowadays, there are around 997 traditional medicine manufacturers in Indonesia, and 98 of them are industries. A few of the big jamu industries have exported their products such as cosmetics, oils and herbal medicines for women and babies to Malaysia, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Europe, the United States, and several Middle Eastern countries.
The proceeds of the herbal medicine sales domestically reached around 2 trillion Indonesian Rupiahs (Rp) annually or about US$225 million, and its export value was only US$5 million, according to data from the Indonesian Food and Medicine Supervisory Body (POM) in 2002. The figure was very small compared with China’s domestic sale value at US$5 billion and its export at US$1 billion. The demand for herbal diet supplements alone is estimated to be worth US$43 billion annually in the global market.
“Business opportunities for traditional medicines are very promising, both in the domestic and international markets. We have not tapped it maximally,” said Eng. Asyiantini, the organizing committee chairman of the Indonesian Biopharmacy Exhibition and Congress (IBEC) that was held in Yogyakarta from July 14 to 18, 2004. She said that the herbal medicine industry uses only around 500 species out of the total 7,000 known medicinal plants available in the country.
Meanwhile, according to Charles Saerang, secretary general of the Indonesian Traditional Herbal Medicines Producers Association (GPJTI), it is quite ironic that in herbal medicine production, the country falls far behind countries such as China, Korea and Japan. Political will from the government is a must for the country to rapidly develop the traditional medicine industry if Indonesia wants to compete with other countries.
Indonesia will host an International Workshop on “Enhancing Cooperation on Herbal Medicine: A Solution for Community Health Problems” and an Herbal Fair in Jakarta, this year. Initially the event was scheduled for July 27 to 30, 2004, but it has been postponed indefinitely. The workshop and exhibition are to be organized by the Non-Aligned Movement Center for South-South Technical Cooperation (NAM CSSTC) and the India-based Center for Science and Technology of Non-aligned and other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Center).
The international workshop and exhibition are expected to address key issues such as enhancing cooperation; covering issues of research, trade, business development, and intellectual property rights; and promoting the use of herbal medicines in the treatment of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, diabetes, and hypertension. It will also discuss solutions for community health problems in which traditional medicine could be used as an alternative to modern medicine due to its affordability, local production, cultural acceptance, and direct benefit to both producers and consumers.
References :
ANTARA - Nyonya Meneer exports herbal medicine to South Asia (2002)
ANTARA - It needs political will to develop jamu medicine (2002)
Suryo S. Negoro - Traditional Herbal Medicine and Traditional Cosmetics (www.Joglosemar.co.id/jamu)
Jamu Folk Medicine from the Kitchen - Tourism Indonesia.
Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor, November 1999 - “Biodiversity, traditional medicine and the sustainable use of indigenous medicinal plants in Indonesia” by Walter R. Erdelen, Kusnaka Adimihardja, H. Moesdarsono, Sidik.
The NAM CSSTCMs Website: http://www.nam-csstc.org.
Hani Mumtazah is an environmental journalist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. She graduated from a three-year English language non-decree program at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta. She attended the Non-Aligned News Agencies Journalism Course in New Delhi, India, in 1987. Comments and suggestions may be forwarded to her by contacting the editor at: ScienceTech@islam-online.net

By Hani MumtazahJakarta, Indonesia 23/08/2004

source : http://www.islamonline.net/english/Science/2004/08/article13.shtml

RESEARCHED THE USEFULNESS OF MEDICINE CROPS

Indonesia was the country that really was rich in the flora and the fauna. Moreover the Indonesian nature wealth became some that were biggest in the world.Around the flora wealth (tumbu-plants) this, many among them that entered the category of the medicine crop. And this has been made use of by our ancestors since previous for centuries.
The utilisation of the crop to treat an illness not has become again secret.The traditional ingredients, including the herbal tonic, was one of the proof concrete him.Was not counted how many traditional ingredients that have been produced in Indonesia.The matter so that made Drs Suprapto Ma'at Ms the Pharmacist, a researcher from the University School Of Medicine of Airlangga Surabaya, was challenged to meliti the usefulness of the medicine crop in Indonesia.Until this, already dozens of medicine crops that were researched by him.Results of my research already was not counted by the amount.There were those who for dengue fever, increased the immune system the body, and anti-cancer, he revealed to Republika, last week.According to the man from Banyuwangi East Java this, Indonesia was indeed very rich in the medicine crop.So as often was made use of by the ancestors for the production of the herbal tonic and the traditional ingredients.Suprapto explained, there were three categories of the medicine that was made from the crop and the natural material.That is the herbal tonic, medicine herbal standarded, and fitofarmaka.The herbal tonic was the traditional ingredients that was not yet tested clinically.Whereas medicine herbal that standarded was what was have passed the clinical test.Now fitofarmaka was medicine herbal that has passed the clinical test.The majority of them indeed were the herbal tonic.Despite often has been used, but was not yet done by the test clinically.Medicine herbal standarded only around 20.Whereas the number fitofarmaka very few.Moreover in Indonesia only was five fitofarmaka, added Suprapto.Several results of the research that was published were the usefulness of the leaves jambu to treat dengue fever.This research, said Suprapto, needed time that for quite a long time to complete him.Evidently, the guava leaves contained the certain substance that could stimulate the development thrombosis in blood.The sufferer of number dengue fever thrombosis him really decreased.The substance could in these guava leaves stimulate again the growth thrombosis, he revealed.Results of the other research were the usefulness of the crop to treat cancer.There were approximately 16 crops that were researched by him and were proven to be potent to treat various cancer kinds.Several crops in part widoro upas, nutmeg, the parasite, sambiloto, the god's leaves, and widoro sea.Results of my research about medicine anti this cancer has often been used in various hospitals.And praise the Lord, was proven to be potent to treat all the cancer kinds, explained the man was 57 years old.Results of the last research were about the usefulness of the Meniran extract (Phyllanthi) to increase the immune system the body.The extract that afterwards was given by this Stimuno name passed the clinical test (the security test) and the clinical test (authentication of his usefulness).Around however many results of his research about medicine herbal, this Meniran extract that was successful five international.'My' paper 'about the extract meniran this became the only paper that was accepted to the cancer congress a world, in Oslo Norway, several years ago', said the activist to the Foundation of Cancer of Wisnuwardhana Surabaya this.In researching various crops herbal this, Suprapto had the special rule.That is only researched the medicine that could compete with chemical medicine.Meaning that is not yet produced in a manner chemistry by the pharmacy company.Because what for researched medicine if his chemical medicine has often circulated.That can not compete.So I only researched the medicine that was not yet produced in a manner chemistry.Stimuno this was one of them, said Suprapto explained.

By Drs Suprapto Ma'at Ms (Apoteker)

JAVA TRADITIONAL HERBAL MEDICINE

'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. The study of jamu had been conducted by Rumphius, a botanist as early as the year 1775 AD by publishing a book 'Herbaria Amboinesis'. A scientific research for jamu by the research center of herbal medicine in Bogor Botanical Garden, resulting a publication of a book 'Medical Book for Children and Adults', composed by E. Van Bent. The first seminar about jamu has been held in Solo in 1940, followed by a Formation of Indonesia's Jamu Committee in 1944. In the 1966, a seminar on jamu was held again. In 1981, a book by title of 'The use of Medical Plants' was established to support the jamu industry in the country. The method of using the jamu remains the same as the ancestors did. Some are consumed by drinking it and some are for outside application.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. What kind of disease could jamu cure?The reply is almost every disease, jamu could cure. 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.
The Herbs for JamuThere are hundreds of herbs for jamu prescriptions, among other are:

SpicesGinger (Zingiber Officinale)
Lempuyang (Zingiber Oronaticum)
Temu Lawak/ Wild Ginger (Curcuma Cautkeridza)
Kunyit/ Tumeric (Curcuma Domestica)
Kencur/ Greater Galingale (Kaemferi Galanga)
Lengkuas/ Ginger Plant (Elpina Galanga)
Bengle (Zingiber Bevifalium)LeavesSecang (Caesalpinia Sappan Hinn)
Sambang Dara (Rexco Ecaria Bicolar Hassk)
Brotowali (Tiospora Rumpii Boerl)
Adas (Foeniculum Vulgare Mill)FruitsJeruk Nipis/ Calamondin (Citrae Aurantifalia Sivingle)
Ceplukan (Physalic Angulata Him)
Nyamplung (Calophylum Inaphyllu)BarksKayu Manis/ Cinamon (Gijeyzahyza Glabra)FlowersMelati/ Yasmin (Jataninum Sunbac Ait)
Rumput Alang-alang (Gramineae)
It is worth to note that some jamu factories in Java are exporting its products. Besides the export of ready made jamu, 25 kinds of herbal plants and ingredients are also in the list of export to Europe, Australia, USA, Japan, etc. No Side Effects The people like to consume jamu due to : Availability in many places Comparatively cheap price No side effects
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