Guide Use Of Plant Medicines

Use the plant for medicinal purposes, is not the same treatment as for other purposes, although the same plant species. There are special treatments in order for a plant can be fully utilized for medicinal purposes. Special treatment include:

When Picking Plants (In general):

1.      Leaves collected during flowering and before fruit becomes ripe.

2.      Flowers were collected before or immediately after bloom.

3.      Fruit picked in the old state.

4.      Seeds collected from fruits that ripen perfectly.

5.      Roots, rhizomes (rhizome), tubers (tuber), and bulbs (bulbus), collected during the rocess of growth stops.

Washing and Drying

Materials that have been collected, washed well done as quickly as possible. Can be immediately used for the treatment of fresh material, or dried for storage, and can be used if necessary.

Drying objectives:

1. Reducing the water content thus preventing spoilage by fungi or bacteria.

2. To be durable.

3. Easily crushed if you want to create powder.

Ways of drying:

1. If the material is large or contains a lot of water, can be cut - cut as necessary.

2. Drying can be directly under sunlight or wear protective gear.

3. Can also be aerated in the shade, or in a drying chamber that good air flow.

Usefulness
The emphasis is healing properties when used single, rather than mixed.

How to use

If no name attached, then boil simplicia (ingredients from medicinal plants, which have not been mixed, processed yet, but already in a clean state) with a small flame, by adding 3 (three) cups water (more Less 600 cc) up to 1 (A) glasses of water (More Less 200cc). Medicinal plants are still a simplicia, treatment outcome seems slow but it is constructive, bebeda with chemical drugs, the treatment results appear quickly, but it is destructive. Therefore, not recommended its use on infectious diseases that are acute (fast) but are preferred for health maintenance and on- disease chronic disease that can not be cured by medication or require a combination of chemical treatment (chemical drugs with medicinal plants).