 PULIH MARI BALI WUTUH PURNA WALUYA JATI Dhenok, the jamu gendong vendor  Dhenok When mom still alive, her morning routine was to buy a glass of jamu (Javanese herbal health drinks) from Dhenok, the jamu gendong vendor. It is called jamu gendong because these vendors (usually women) carry (gendong) home-made herbal drinks in baskets on their backs and offer them door to door in the morning. Out of many jamu vendors that passed by my sister's house, mom preferred Dhenok because she is friendly and didn't mind to listen to mom's ramblings. Dhenok has become an important part of mom's morning ritual she would miss her if she didn't see Dhenok around. When me or my young bro came over to visit mom, she had more reason to buy more jamu from Dhenok for all of us. The typical ingredients of jamu consist of rice powder, turmeric, ginger, bitter galangal (brotowali), lime leaves, Javanese palm sugar, turmeric, lesser galangal (kencur), betel leaves (daun sirih), water, salt and assorted herbal ingredients. There is jamu to refresh and restore energy, jamu to cleanse the blood, jamu to get rid of masuk angin (to cure a case of the chills), jamu to lose weight, jamu to increase children's appetite, jamu for painful period, jamu to increase potency etc. A glass of jamu costs only 2,000 Rupiahs or 25 US cents. .jpg) Dhenok woke up at 4am every morning, prepare the jamu with fresh ingredients and make her rounds started from 6:30am. Now even though mom is no longer around, Dhenok always stops by at my sister's house over the weekend. She is indeed a very nice person and has loyal customers around the neighborhood. The heart of the Javanese tradition of jamu  A woman’s life cycle consists of: birth, puberty, pre-marriage, pregnancy, giving birth, lactating, menopause, and post menopause, each with its own physical and mental challenges. In Javanese culture, we believe that harmony is paramount to achieve the balance between physical and spiritual health in order to prepare us for these challenges. The Javanese people also believe that nature provides us with all necessary food and medicine to help us prepare our self. Our tradition teaches us how we should combine various plants to make our food and remedies and how we should take charge of our wellbeing. We call this art of herbal healing as Jamu. Our Natural Heritage Jamu as the core of our Spa practices is one example on how Javanese culture respect Nature as the main source of food and medicine for all life. Indonesia is blessed not only with its rich natural resources but also tradition of preserving this valuable ethno botanical knowledge. It is arguably a dying science amidst modern lifestyle which prefers to embrace genetically modified food and chemical compounds as medicine over natural derived food and medicine. Million of hectares of natural habitat for plants and animals are being cleared to make way for other destructive activities like logging, mining, or monoculture plantation/farming because human forget how precious the various of plants are for our main source of food and medicine. It is through the tradition of Jamu, we will show to people from around the world that we will preserve our biological diversity and our ethno botanical knowledge as our most valuable heritage. Adapted from the text of the photographic/essay exhibition, "Jamu: the Herbal Remedies of Indonesia."
Increasing numbers of Americans are drawn to natural medical therapies such as Chinese herbology and the Ayurvedic medical traditions of the Indian subcontinent. Borrowing from and contributing to both these systems of medicinal plant use is a close relative, jamu, the traditional plant medicines of Indonesia. Woefully unexplored by students of herbal wisdom, jamu offers many plants and methodologies which are worthy of in -depth study and new to the ethnomedical literature. Rich in flora and tradition, the potential contributions Indonesia's "Apotik Hidup" ("Living Apothecary") could make to world medical knowledge and public healthcare are great.  Lulur (Javanese) - Boreh (Balinese) - Indonesian Spa practices  Lulur (Javanese) - Boreh (Balinese) - Indonesian Spa practices  Lulur (Javanese) - Boreh (Balinese) - Indonesian Spa practices  Lulur (Javanese) - Boreh (Balinese) - Indonesian Spa practices  Lulur (Javanese) - Boreh (Balinese) - Indonesian Spa practices Javanese Lulur Ritual Derived from the leaves, roots, bark, flowers, and stems of higher plants as well as the minerals and fungi of Indonesia's abundant tropical forests, jamu come in the form of nonprescription pills, powders, teas, tonics, topical oils, and creams. About 1,000 indigenous plants, from Acacia to Zingiber, are grown or gathered to make jamu. Remedies usually consist of about three to a dozen ingredients and are used to treat just about every malady imaginable, from urinary tract infections to infertility, to cancer, to depression. Jamu to promote general health and beauty are also very popular. There are herbs to: "stay young," "keep breasts firm," "improve male virility" (sometimes called "He-Man Jamu"), "improve married life," as well as a myriad of herbs to aid a mother before and after she gives birth. It is estimated that 80% of all Indonesians take some form of jamu daily. (A noteworthy consensus for a diverse population -- the world's fourth largest -- of about 191 million people spread over 13,667 islands, sharing 500 language groups). Bought in pharmacies, department stores, street stalls, from door to door vendors, grown in backyard garden plots, or foraged in the forest, jamu use spans ethnic and economic barriers. From Behind the Kraton Wall The origin and development of jamu is not completely known. The earliest evidence of internal and external use of herbs dates back to the eighth century. In Central Java, on the walls of the Borobudur temple (the largest ancient monument in the Southern hemisphere and the world's largest stupa -- a dome-shaped Buddhist shrine), there is a relief of a kalpataru tree: a mythological tree that lives forever. Beneath the tree, people crush ingredients for the preparation of jamu. Ancient scripts handwritten in Javanese, such as "Serat Primpon Jampi," ("Handbook of Magic Formulas") and "Serat Racikan Boreh Wulang nDalem" ("Handbook for Mixing Medicinal Ingredients") contain recipes recorded for the exclusive use of Javanese royalty. In the earliest surveys of flora of the Indonesian archipelago, botanists noted the curative properties of jamu. The Dutch botanist, Rumphius (Georg Eberhard Rumpf) (1628-1702), the "Pliny of the Indies," covered medicinal uses of plants in his classic wo rk on the Indonesian island of Ambon, Herbarium Amboinense (published in 1741), as did Karel Heyne in his 1927 De Nuttige Planten Van Indonesie, and Issac Henry Burkill in his 1935 Dictionary Of The Economic Products Of The Malay Peninsula. The popular practice of jamu today, especially beauty products, owes much to the once secret herbal pharmacopoeia of the kingdoms based in Solo and Yogyakarta, Central Java. While villagers employed a simpler form of jamu, the heavily guarded Kraton (Palace) recipes included mare ingredients, some of which came from India and China. Good health and beauty was considered evidence of a leader's divine right to rule. Also, jamu was required for the many wives of the king to maintain their youth, fertility, and their strength during child birth; it was also needed for the king to maintain his virility. Solo, once the seat of the former great Mataram dynasty, is now a center for the marketing and large-scale production of packaged jamu. Some of the major manufacturers claim that their herbals are based on the original Solo court recipes. (How these recipes jumped the Kraton walls to become standard home remedies is still a matter of conjecture.) At the heart of the Javanese tradition of jamu use is a cultural icon known as jamu gendong (jamu -- herbal remedies, gendong -- meaning to carry on one's back). Jamu gendong is usually carried and sold by young, attractive women who reportedly hail from Solo, Central Java. Their generally youthful appearance and beauty is believed to be evidence of the salubrious benefits of regular jamu use. Instantly recognizable in traditional dress, the jamu vendors peddle door to door, their backs laden with recycled Johnny Walker and other beverage bottles full of ocher and khaki-colored potions swaddled in batik cloth. |
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