Phytopharmacy’s Slow Progress
Numerous problems are hindering the development of phytopharmacy in Indonesia, from the reluctance of doctors to prescribe herbal medicines to lack of regulatory support. The industry must work to promote the use of phytopharmaceuticals among medical professionals and the public.
Abdul Manan
October 19, 2020
FOR a long time, there has always been a discrepancy between the abundance of our natural medicine resources and their actual utilization. A research of medicines and herbal plants by the health ministry in 2017 identified at least 11,218 types of medicinal plants, very few of which were developed into phytopharmaceuticals. Phytopharmaceuticals are drugs derived from plants that have passed preclinical and clinical tests. Their contents are also
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