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Gambaran Praktik Penggunaan Jamu oleh Dokter di Enam Provinsi Di Indonesia

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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 association were invited and asked to fill a set of structured questionnaire.
A total of 108 physicians using Indonesian herbal medicine participated in this study. They were either general practitioners or specialists with median age of 43 (range 26-70 years old). They (76.9%) have used herbal medicine for 1-10 years with median of 2 patients per day (range 0-40). The physicians also practiced other traditional medicines such as acupuncture (47.2 %), massage (7.4 %), acupressure (6.5%). Besides prescribing herbal medicine to their patients, all physicians also consumed herbal medicine for themselves and their family. They used mainly with mono or combined herb in capsule and simplicia. Mostly herbal medicine were given to hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes mellitus, acute upper respiratory disease, hepatitis, hyperuricemia, osteoarthritis, diarrhea, cancer, and gastritis. Curcuma xanthorrhiza, Andrographis paniculata, Curcuma domestica (turmeric), Centella asiatica, Orthosiphon aristatus, Apium graveolens (celery), Phylanthus niruri, Guazuma ulmifolia, Zingiber officinale, and Curcuma zedoaria were prescribed.
As conclusion, most of the herbal physician in Java and Bali prescribed Indonesian herbal medicine in this 10 years periode combined with foreign herbal medicine and other traditional medicines but still using conventional medicine as the highest standard of theraphy.

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Buletin Penelitian Kesehatan, 40 (3) 2012: 109-122

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Jakarta : Sekretariat Badan Litbang Kesehatan., 2012

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14p

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0125-9695

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medicine, traditional
MEDICINE, HERBAL

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