The promotion of various health herbs seems to be constantly enlivening the social media timelines. From dates, honey, zuriat fruit, lemon juice, to detox fruit juices. This seems to be an anomaly: when science advances and technology becomes more sophisticated, why are traditional herbal medicines on the rise?
Recently, health accounts have been popular that promote healthy life tips in the style of the prophet and certain beliefs. Some of them are managed by doctors who claim to be pro-herbal and campaign for the path to health based on the teachings of the Prophet's book and sunna. The upload of the account mostly contains practices or recipes for herbs.
"Only with lemongrass leaves we can nourish the body."
"I drank Habbatsauda only one month after line two (pregnant)."
That's more or less the sentence in their upload. It is not uncommon for these health accounts to re-upload conversations with their followers or patients containing testimonials of successful therapy. But are these claims reliable and true?
Dara, 28, is a follower of such health accounts. It has been a year since he had been diligently practicing various kinds of herbal concoctions to improve fitness. Its flagship recipe is a variety of infused water, dates, vegetable and fruit foods, and virgin coconut oil (VCO) that is drunk without processing.
"If you look at the comments of people who have succeeded in their pregnancy program through it (herbal recipes), it is really enthusiastic," said Dara. Currently she is indeed improving her diet to prepare for pregnancy.
DAra admits that he runs the Apostle-style diet with a schedule of consuming honey, three dates, and fruit in the morning. Half an hour before lunch he drank VCO. Dewi also avoids excess flour and sugar. He admitted that this habit made his stomach disease rarely recur, even though he usually recurred up to three times a week.
Now if you feel symptoms of minor illnesses such as headache, cough, or nausea, Dara usually only drinks ginger stew as medicine. If the symptoms do not go away for up to two weeks, then he should consult a doctor.
Herbal Development
As a Muslim, Dara's diet makes her body fitter. The doctor's motto, "Healthy life for God," has always been used by the doctor. The motivation wrapped in religious narratives has also been popularized by Christians by adopting the Mediterranean diet or the Daniel diet.
The Mediterranean diet encourages people to stay away from eating red meat and increase vegetables and fruits. Meanwhile Daniel's diet recommends regular consumption of plant-based foods and drinking plenty of water. The principle of all healthy lifestyles is actually the same: motivate healthy eating and switch to more natural preparations.
The tendency to maintain health in a natural fashion was and is gaining popularity, although it continues to argue that this practice is outdated. Tirto has written about the history of Indonesian herbal medicines. At least until the end of the 19th century, European physicians were very interested in the indigenous practice of herbal medicine.
Their enthusiasm for medicinal plants in the Indies has only diminished since the early 20th century for two reasons. First, it is accurate to the bacteriological paradigm, a framework of medical science that believes in the emergence of diseases caused by specific pathogens. Therapeutic practice is more focused on looking for these pathogens in environmental laboratories.
Second, within the framework of colonialism, the paradigm mistake was also a form of scientific domination brought by the Europeans. An eventual disease can be specifically defined, and its treatment can be clearly defined. But the heyday of herbal medicine is not over.
Why He Is Considered Backward
Herbs have even returned to the attention of society and modern health science. The United States as a country with advanced health science and technology can spend USD 591 million trying herbal medicine (2000). The number of people using complementary therapies, including herbal remedies, massage, vitamins, and homeopathy in the US also jumped nine percent over seven years (1990-1997).
"There are 75 out of 117 American medical schools that offer alternative medicine courses," states NIH's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), rewritten by WebMD (2001).
Is Natural Better? Many people believe things that smell natural or herbal are healthier than synthetics. They consider herbal therapies or medicines not chemical in nature; minimal, or even no, side effects; and more potent than chemical drugs. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) said that preference arose by involving a series of ideas, including the belief that nature is pure and superior to man-made products. This belief then influences health decisions to become biased towards herbal products. Though not all herbal products are proven to be effective. In fact, after researching several herbs showed no benefit. Just as Echinacea can't fight the flu, Ginkgo doesn't in fact help prevent or slow dementia, nor does St John's Wort cure major depression.
Even some of them have serious side effects. For example, the kava plant from the South Pacific island which is believed to relieve anxiety has the side effect of damaging the liver. Then Ephedra, a hawthorn plant from Central Asia and Mongolia with properties overcoming colds and fever has been linked to heart problems and the risk of death.
but it needs to be underlined consuming herbal medicine must also be handled by experts and must be in the right way so that it does not become toxic to our bodies here are a few pictures of herbal medicine from ordinary grass that have extraordinary properties
