Good News, Unja Students Create Drugs For Scabies Diseases

JAKARTA - Students of the Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Jambi University (Unja) created drugs for skin diseases or scibies in livestock originating from lengkuas processing.

"We name this product Herba Nesa Spray, which is a major soft herbal medicine that can function to cure skin diseases or scibies in livestock," said Head of the Student Team of the Faculty of Livestock Unja Nandyni Zulfa, ANTARA, Sunday, November 26.

He explained that this drug was created to answer the challenges of the high price of drug healing for kudis or scibies in the market. With this herbal product, it is an option for small farmers to get quality, cheap, and environmentally friendly animal medicines.

The uniqueness of this discovery, according to him, can, among other things, cure scabies disease in animals by spraying it on the skin of livestock that is infected with scabies.

"This product has several advantages, namely using natural ingredients, the price of products is fairly economical compared to conventional products similar to those circulating in the market," he said.

This discovery, he said, had also been exhibited at the Entrepreneurship Student Development (P2MW) program in Bali some time ago.

He hopes that this discovery in the future can become an entrepreneurial product business that they can run. This is in line with the funding program they received from the Ministry of Education and Culture worth IDR 15 million.

"The motivation of the team in participating in this P2MW activity is because we want to be entrepreneurial and have deeper experience in entrepreneurship. We want to develop this product so that it can be reached by small farmers in remote areas, especially in the Jambi area," he said.

The supervisory lecturer for the Herba Nesa team, Fatati, said that this discovery was part of the P2MW program that students received. Funding from the Ministry of Education and Culture has been successfully used by students to produce new products worth selling and have benefits.

"The discovery of these students still needs to be managed in terms of entrepreneurship assistance so that the products created can be used by farmers in Jambi more widely," he said.