Now For Our Nature

Slogan Back to Nature, began echoing in Indonesia, particularly the field of medicine or treatment around 90s. This slogan aims to appeal jointly utilize the natural potential of existing in the world of medicine, cosmetics, or perhaps to also inspire design with nature-friendly houses.

Our country, Indonesia is very rich in medicinal and already from the hereditary use of natural ingredients such as spices, pepper, nutmeg, cloves, besides of course many (hundreds) kinds of herb medicine, cat whiskers, mahogany, noni, saga, starfruit, tamarind java, java chili, and so on. Almost all types of diseases treated with medicinal herbs which are provided with simple means such as brewed (taken with warm water), dibobokkan, or dihirupkan fragrance.

The slogan was actually not the beginning of our country (or at least about Indonesia in Asia) which is a producer of medicinal plants, but instead from countries such as Germany advanced berteknology, Switzerland, United and others. The question arises why? Did they deliberately deceive the people east (read Asian countries) who had previously participated berkilblat with their progress during the synthesis of these drugs could be developed / sophisticated instrument in making a diagnosis and treat disease. Could be yes, but this is already happening and is not important anymore. Now how do we (Indonesia) berfocus back on health service relies on the use of natural medicine (back to nature).

Filosophy modern medicine (with the tools, synthetic drugs) are strukture mimic the properties of chemical substances contained in medicinal plants, and then presented in the form of practical, with consideration various aspects such as bio-availability, drug stability, drug metabolism measured in the body (pharmacokinetics ), the determination of the dose, and so on, later known as the clinical data. So also with the development of sophisticated equipment, ranging from syringes, rongent, scanner, CT scan, endoscopy, and so forth. These tools serve as a tool to observe the object / organ to be treated or observed the process of development in treatment. With the principle objective that all that happens in the body can be monitored.

Looks very different from what the equipment used in modern medicine than natural treatment (nature), and of course also strukture synthetic chemicals that sometimes are experiencing strukture dirivatisasi from the original. The development of this chemical strukture which often cause side effects that are not diinginkan.Sebagai example flavonoids, a substance properties curcumin (from Curcuma domestica or turmeric). To get a more powerful antibiotic effect could have modified their structures with an additional hydroxyl group such as (OH), but of course the body would be different if the received meresponse is natural curcumin. This then raises a new side effect of a synthetic drug. The more modifications, the more changes from the original properties.

This paper does not intend to manganjurkan we use a natural treatment (nature) is absolute, but as a suggestion that natural treatments are preferred as long as necessary to address the need for a treatment, along with cost considerations.

If we begin to develop treatments based on a back to nature, then all devices support the enforcement of support should be sought from diagnosis, pharmacoteraphy, monitoring of medical action. As has been done in China and India.