7/21/2019
Herbs are made from natural ingredients, in the form of parts of plants such as rhizomes (roots), leaves, bark, and fruit. There are also materials from the body of the animal, such as gall goat, bile snake, or crocodile tangkur. Often free-range chicken yolks are also used to add mixtures to herbs.
Herbs usually taste bitter so you need to add honey as a sweetener so that it feels more tolerable to drinkers. There are even herbs added with wine. Aside from being a reducing bitter taste, wine also functions to warm the body.
In various big cities there is a profession selling sellers of gendong that goes around peddling herbs as a healthy and refreshing drink. In addition, herbal medicine is also produced in herbal factories by large companies such as Jamu Air Mancur, Nyonya Meneer or Djamu Djago, and sold in various drug stores in sachet packaging. Herbs like this must be dissolved in hot water before drinking. In subsequent developments herbal medicine is also sold in the form of tablets, caplets and capsules.
Traditional herbal medicine is a herbal medicine made from natural ingredients. Like from plants that are formulated into herbal medicine powder and herbal drinks. The goal is the health and warmth of the body.
If the herbal medicine is made using sweeteners, the herbal maker will use java sugar, granulated sugar, or rock sugar (a large crystal form resembling a lump of stone). The use of genuine sugar is a must for herbal sellers for health reasons. Herbs that use artificial sweeteners means violating the rules and deviating from the purpose of making herbs, namely to nourish and maintain the health of the body.
Herbal medicine as a form of traditional medicine plays an important role in the treatment of the population in developing countries. It is estimated that around 70-80% of the population in developing countries have a dependence on traditional medicine (Wijesekera, 1991; Mahady, 2001).
In general, herbal medicine is considered non-toxic and does not cause side effects. The efficacy of herbal medicine has been tested by time, time and history, as well as direct empirical evidence for humans for hundreds of years (Winarmo, 1997).
Herbal medicine is home-based herbal medicine. The marketing method is to enter the processed herbal products that have been made into bottles which are then arranged in a basket. The basket will then be carried by the seller. Until the name is called a herbal medicine carrier. This herbal medicine is sold by going around every day. Jamu gendong is generally used for the purpose of maintaining health. People buy herbal medicine often because of their daily consumption habits as health drinks.
Herbal medicine of nutritious kencur can eliminate body aches and as a tonic or refresher when it works. By getting used to drinking rice kencur herbs, the body will avoid the aches and pains that usually arise when working too hard. In addition, kencur rice can relieve coughs and is the right brew for cough herbs.
Raw material
In making kencur rice herbs, there are several variations of ingredients used, but there are two basic ingredients that are always used, namely rice and kencur. Both of these ingredients are in accordance with the name of the herbal medicine, and these herbs are always available even though the composition is not always the same among the sellers of herbs. Other ingredients commonly mixed into the concoction of herbal medicine for kencur rice are kedawung seeds, ginger rhizomes, kapulogo seeds, tamarind fruit, keningar wood, turmeric. As a sweetener used brown sugar mixed with white sugar.
In general, it is not much different, at first the rice is roasted (roasted), then pounded until smooth. Other ingredients according to the composition of the concoction are pounded using mortar and pestle iron or stone. Both of these ingredients are then mixed, boiled boiling water to extract the juice, squeezed and filtered with a filter or squeezed through a cloth wrapped in ingredients. Then put in bottles or thermos.