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Traditional Medicine and The Use of Herbal Ingredients
Traditional Medicine and The Use of Herbal Ingredients
IN USADA BALI
Traditional healing methods in Bali are contained in the Usada Bali lontar which
contains a system of treatment, medicinal ingredients and methods of treatment. Lontar-lontar
about Balinese healing-knowledge can be divided into two parts, namely Usada (rules,
recipes, and medicines), and "Tutur" (teachings and interpretations). In Balinese “Balian”,
diagnosis cannot be separated from prognose (prediction, how the disease will end), because
its cultivation must depend on the possibilities or cure.
For examples, traditional fever treatment can use ingredients, namely Temulawak
(Curcuma xanthorhiza), temu tis (Curcuma purpurascens), kenanga (Cananga odorayun), 7
slices of lawos (Alpinia galanga L.), ketumbar /coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.
Umbelliferaceae), musi (Artemisia cina), sepet-sepet, bobolong (Melaleuca bucadendra L.).
All these ingredients are mixed and finely ground to obtain powder or boreh. The ingredients
that have been finely ground in the form of powder are divided into two parts. Some are
mixed in bath water and some are applied to sweaty forehead and shoulders as powder or
boreh to bring back tis or lower body temperature. This herb comes from Usada Tenung
Tanyalara.