Traditional Medical Therapy
A traditional medical therapy or a traditional medicine is a health care system remaining in a certain culture upheld by a certain community. A word “traditional” refers to the system of medical care as to how to diagnose diseases, who holds the treatment, what are the medicines and what is the people perception on the disease that is going to be healed. It is important to point that each community has different perceptions toward diseases, therefore they offer different therapies and medicines in the process of healing. In the Malay traditional medicine, the indigenous people relied mainly on medicinal plants and animals for the preparation of therapeutic substances. Parts of plants used in the traditional medicine are fruits, trunks, flowers, leaves, roots, stems, and barks; while of animals are meat and bone, but for some diseases other parts are also used. Ramuan (medicine) produced from the mixed ingredients above is called ramuan tradisional (traditional medicine).
Historically, it is hard to know who found such ramuan tradisional at the first time. However, the traditional Malay medicine is the distillation of vast historical experience dating back many centuries ago as a response of some challenges the Malays faced. Among the sophisticated traditional medicines, Chinese, Egyptians, Indians, and Javanese have the world‘s oldest continuous surviving tradition. The Malay people, besides those ethnics, also have unique traditional medicines explained in this portal.
- Malay Medical Traditional Treatment in Indonesia. (21)
- Malay Medical Traditional Treatment in Malaysia.
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