Jamu, Traditional Herbal mix in Indonesia
Jamu is the name for traditional medicine from Indonesia. Later, popularly known as herbs.
Herbal medicine made from natural materials, form part of such plant rhizome (roots), leaves and bark, fruit. There also used material from the animal body, such as bile tangkur goat or alligator.
Jamu is usually tastes bitter, so need to add honey as a sweetener to taste more tolerable peminumnya.
In many large cities there are professional sellers who carry medicinal herbs around hawking as a healthy drink and refreshing. Besides herbal medicine is also produced in medicinal plants by large companies such as Herbal Water Feature, Nyonya Meneer or Djamu Djago, and sold at various drug stores in sachet packaging. This herbal medicine should be dissolved in hot water first before drinking. In the further development of herbal medicine is also sold in tablet form, extract and capsules.
Herbal usage generally used for the purpose of maintaining health. People often buy herbal carrying out of habit to consume as a health drink consumed daily.
In the manufacture of medicinal rice kencur, there are several variations of the materials used, but there are two main ingredients are always used, namely rice and galingale. Both these materials in accordance with the name of herbal medicine, and herbal medicine is always there, although not always the same composition of herbal medicine sellers. Other ingredients commonly added to herbal concoction is a seed of rice kencur Kedawung, ginger rhizome, kapulogo seeds, fruit acids, keys, keningar wood, turmeric, lemon juice, and nutmeg. As a sweetener used brown sugar mixed with white sugar, and often they also mix artificial sugar.
Generally not much cadar cadas, which is boiled and allowed to cool, then provided as needed. At first disangan rice, then pounded until smooth. Other materials in accordance with boxed dish pereputan using an iron mortar and pestle or stone. These two ingredients are then mixed, pressed, and filtered with a sieve or squeezed through a cloth material. Lemon juice mixed ingredients into the boiled water that has been available, stirring well. Next put in the bottles.