Guidelines for The Use of Herbal Medicines in Family Health Care

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GUIDELINES FOR THE USE OF HERBAL MEDICINES IN FAMILY HEALTH CARE

FOREWORD

FIFTH EDITION

Increased awareness in using traditional medicine, especially medicinal plants, becomes
important to improve the community’s knowledge and skills in processing home remedies
and processing medicinal plants as alternative medicine at the family level.

Therefore, the community is in great need of guidelines about application of medicinal
plants, their cultivation and initiating family medicinal gardens around their home.

The ninth reprint of the guideline is needed to fulfil the health centre needs for Cadre
Guidelines about application of medicinal plants for family health. This ninth reprint did not
have considerable changes, except for minor ones pertaining to editing in the annex that
contains the local names of the medicinal plants.

We thank the contributors that have revised the book ‘Guidelines for the Use of Herbal
Medicines in Family Health Care for their significant inputs.

Jakarta, November 2004

Director of Community Health

Dr. Faizati Karim MPH