The Story Of Prince Charles Kepincut Jamu Traditional Indonesia

The Crown Prince of the British Empire, Prince Charles who was crowned King Charles III at the Westminster Abbey Church, London on May 6, 2023. (Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - The wealth of the archipelago is gone. Alam Nusantara has been able to provide all kinds of needs of the bumiputras since time immemorial. Regarding medicines, for example. The Bumiputras are not fully dependent on medicines from the west.

All because of the presence of traditional medicines, herbal ingredients. At that time the herbal medicine was able to go hand in hand with modern medicine until Indonesia became independent. Herbal medicine is getting more and more famous. As a result, the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of England, Prince Charles, was attracted by the ingredients of Indonesian native herbal medicine.

Traditional medicine with herbal ingredients was once a prima donna. The making of herbal medicine is like a masterpiece. A masterpiece that can not only cure disease, but is also able to help the spiritual world to sexual.

The medicine of herbal medicine was not marginalized even though the Dutch colonialists were the rulers of the archipelago. Instead of insisting on only introducing medical treatment in the western style, the Dutch were attracted a lot by traditional medicine, especially herbal ingredients.

The efficacy of herbal medicines that is no less than modern medicines is the reason. The popularity of herbal medicine did not necessarily fade when the Japanese, in fact, was only entering the archipelago. It was the stagnant economic condition in the Japanese era that forced many Bumiputra doctors to continue to develop herbal ingredients.

This condition was felt by R. Suharto, who is a personal doctor for freedom fighters, Soekarno and Mohammad Hatta. He emphasized that jamu was able to be an alternative when Western medicines began to run low. The study made him save the lives of many people. This means that herbal medicine is never hampered by time.

In giving medicines during the Japanese occupation, I often use herbal ingredients based on recipes from various Cruidenboek, medicine spice books, by Paesens, Kloppenburg Versteeg and others. To prepare the ingredients, I use the power of a herbal maker.

Types of ingredients that can be dried, or can be given in the form of powder and pills, and last for several days. It turns out that many of the herbal ingredients contain antipirritis and analgetic power, decreased heat and pain relievers, and many can reduce or stop diarrhea, dredging, cough, and other diseases," explained R. Suharto in the book Historical Actions (1984).

Gaung uses herbal ingredients for treatment and then famous throughout the country. Many Europeans have lived in Indonesia and then had a major influence on herbal medicine on health to their country. Mainly, when Indonesia is independent.

More and more people are attracted. Prince Charles from England, one of them. He who visited Indonesia did not waste exploring knowledge about the ingredients of Indonesian herbal medicine in 1989.

The Prince Charles' agenda in Indonesia is not only filled with state events. One time, Prince Charles chose to meet various scholars from Indonesia from Umar Kayam to Jaya Suprana - at the Borobudur Hotel, Jakarta, on November 19, 1989.

It may be that the event is only scheduled for lunch. In fact, Prince Charles used the lunch agenda to find out a lot about Indonesia. Mainly, about herbal ingredients.

Prince Charles asked many questions about herbal medicine experts who are also high-ranking officials of the Jamu Jago company, Jaya Suprana. This curiosity is reasonable. Because, he himself has been familiar with traditional medicines for a long time and regularly consumes them.

Prince Charles himself is known as the British Royal medical association soap opera. He is even known to be familiarly campaigning for the use of traditional medicines as a complement to modern medicine.

Prince Charles is interested in a lengthy explanation of the herbal medicine. Prince Charles finally had the idea to invite Indonesia and Britain to work together in developing new herbal ingredients. To contribute more to the world's medical world, he said.

As the British Royal medical associate's soap opera, Prince Charles is the main character who campaigns for the use of traditional medicines as a complement to the treatment of orthodox academics. So when I give a brief description of meaning, history, philosophy and the potential of herbal medicine, the Prince of Wales listens enthusiastically."

Prince Charles while inhaling tea, then bombarded me with weighted questions, such as how with the preservation of material sources, how to control the quality of efficacy that is unstable and difficult to standardize, what about research and development, what if British and Indonesian traditional medicine experts work together to develop new ingredients and many more, "explained Jaya Suprana in the book Naskah Kompas (2009).

Prince Charles was crowned King Charles III on Saturday 6 November 2023. He replaced his mother, Queen Elizabeth II who died on September 8, 2022.