“Jamu Pegal Linu” (traditional Indonesian herb for rheumatoid and gouty arthritis) is one of the most popular jamu products manufactured and widely consumed in the community. Despite the claims that they are made of natural herbs, these kinds of jamu are susceptible for being counterfeited and adulterated with drugs that is potentially harmful for health. The aim of this study was to ident…
Flu or common-cold is an acute upper respiratory tract infection mainly caused by virus, and a self-limiting disease which is requires only symptomatic treatments to alleviate the symptoms. Common-cold medication is usually an OTC drug and a fixed-dose combination of various active ingredients. The purpose of this paper is to review the active ingredients in cold medicines and how to select the…
Herbal medicine has been widely used. Government supports become more obvious since the declaration of “Saintifikasi Jamu” in Januari 2010 in Kendal, Central Java. To obtain this program, inventory of herbal medicine usage by physicians was conducted. This was a cross sectional descriptive study in 6 provinces of Java and Bali. Doctors registered as member of herbal medicine related assoc…
Gambir (Uncaria gambir Roxb) is “a local spesific” plant which is one of the main commodities from West Sumateraprovince. Nevertheless, Gambir plant has not been widely used by Indonesian people as herbal medicine. Most of the Gambir extract containingcatechine and katechu tannat acid which are flavonoidderivates withantioxidant activity. The result revealed that chocolate which contains fl…
Drug resistance is one of the global problems, particularly in communicable diseases control including Indonesian malaria elimination program. Since 2004, Artesunate-Amodiaquine (AS+AQ), an Artemisinin based Combination Therapy (ACT), has been used in Indonesia as recommended by the WHO for treatment of acute uncomplicated malaria, replacing of chloroquine resistant antimalarial. Since then, im…
Background. Since 2004, Malaria Program in Indonesia has used Artemisinin Combination Therapy (ACT) to replace the chloroquine resistance. The recommended ACT is Artesunate dan Amodiaquine (AAQ) combination for uncomplicated falciparum malaria. To relieve side effects and clinical complaints of malaria , health workers usually gave symptomatic and other drugs in addition to antimalarial drugs.…
Artemisinin is the besi antimalaria for chloroquine resistant P. falciparum recommended by WHO in a combination therapy. Artemisnin is isolated from Artemisia annua L (family: Asteraceace) that can grow as is should be I Indonesia and has cultivated by BPTO Tawangmangu in order to self-material antimalaria. One of the important analysis is method for measuring artemisinin concentration in extra…