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Jamu (Javanese: ꦗꦩꦸ) is a traditional medicine from Indonesia.It is predominantly a herbal medicine made from natural materials, such as roots, bark, flowers, seeds, leaves and fruits. [1]
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The bark of willow trees contains salicylic acid, the active metabolite of aspirin, and has been used for millennia to relieve pain and reduce fever. [1]Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times.
The use of plants for medicinal purposes, and their descriptions, dates back two to three thousand years. [10] [11] The word herbal is derived from the mediaeval Latin liber herbalis ("book of herbs"): [2] it is sometimes used in contrast to the word florilegium, which is a treatise on flowers [12] with emphasis on their beauty and enjoyment rather than the herbal emphasis on their utility. [13]
Basellaceae is a family of flowering plants in the order Caryophyllales, in the clade core eudicots, according to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.The family comprises 19 known species of herbaceous plants in four genera: [2]
Kaempferia galanga is used as a spice in cooking in Indonesia, where it is called kencur ('cekur' in Malaysia), and especially in Javanese and Balinese cuisines. Beras kencur, which combines dried K. galanga powder with rice flour, is a particularly popular jamu herbal drink.
Sida rhombifolia, commonly known as arrowleaf sida, [1] is a perennial or sometimes annual plant in the Family Malvaceae, native to the Old World tropics and subtropics.Other common names include rhombus-leaved sida, Paddy's lucerne, jelly leaf, and also somewhat confusingly as Cuban jute, [2] Queensland-hemp, [3] and Indian hemp (although S. rhombifolia is not closely related to either jute ...
Clinacanthus nutans is a herbaceous plant that grows in low shrubs up to 2.5 meters (8 ft 2 in) high. Its stems are green, woody, upright and cylindrical. Its leaves are green, simple, lanceolate with pointed tips and rounded bases, and are 8–12 cm (3.1–4.7 in) long and 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) wide.