What is the meaning of herbal medicine?
Herb is a plant or plant part used as a conduit of aroma, taste or for medicinal purposes. Herbal remedy itself is a product derived from plants and used to improve health. Many herbal medicines have been used empirically (and hereditary) as a drug in traditional medicine.
POM itself distinguishes traditional herbal medicines circulating in Indonesia into several types, namely:
1. Herb
Herb logo is Indonesian traditional medicine. Potions or materials used to make herbal medicine are usually the hereditary material that is used for traditional medicine, for example galingale rice, turmeric, tamarind, turmeric, etc.
Formerly available in the form of herbal decoction or liquid, for the moment has a lot of herbal products circulate in the form of powder or capsule. BPOM Party has issued a production standard of traditional medicine known as CPOTB (Traditional Medicine Making Good).
2. Standardized herbal medicinal
Standardized herbal medicine is a standardized herbal preparations made from natural herbal remedy that has been proven scientifically the safety and usefulness Pre clinic and test their raw materials have on the standardization. So at this stage apart from herbal medicines have been standardized raw materials and production processes also have to go through the process of laboratory tests which include testing the efficacy and safety testing. Efficacy test conducted on test animals in physiology and anatomy is considered almost the same with humans, while the safety test conducted to determine whether the material is hazardous or not. Safety testing is done in the form of acute toxicity test, toxicity test or when necessary subsonic chronic toxicity test. Pre clinic from the test results will be known about the properties of such materials, the appropriate dose for the treatment, safety and even the possible side effects.
3. Phytopharmaca
Phytopharmaca is even higher standards for herbal medicines. Phytopharmaca itself is a natural ingredient dosage safety and usefulness has been proven scientifically with praklinik tests and clinical trials. So in addition to the drug has been through the process of standardization of production and raw materials, then examined in the laboratory Pre clinic, we then carried out drug testing to humans (clinical trials) to assess the usefulness of sick people or healthy people for comparison. This stage usually requires a long time and is expensive because it involves many people. After beating the clinical trials of herbal medicines, it has been evidence based herbal medicines which have meaning medical evidence of the efficacy and safety for humans. In Indonesia today there has been some kind of herbal medicine which has been in faction phytopharmaca and its use has even been prescribed by a doctor...
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