Traditional Treatment

CLINICAL testing has been serving as a 'hurdle' for traditional herbal medicines to clear before they can complement modern drugs. Despite the popularity of herbal medicines, only a few producers had conducted modern clinical tests to ensure their safety.

Herbal medicines had been proven for years to heal sicknesses, even without clinical testing, but this fact had been ignored by medical circles in the country. These are over-the-counter herbal medicines derived from the forests of Indonesia-hidden pharmacies of potent medicines in the form of plants, grasses, minerals, fungi, roots, barks, twigs, dried flowers, and parts of mammals, birds, reptiles.

They come in the form of pills, capsules, powders, beans, peas, flat seeds, or can look like tea leaves. Herbal medicines found in the markets of Bali and 'jamu' shops are found with row upon row of small packages and little jars and bottles lining the shelves. You need no doctor's prescription. Explain your problem to the vendor and he'll know what you'll need. Follow the dosage directions on the packet or bottle.