Rahsia Daun Sirih

Rahsia Daun Sirih

Daun Sirih kerap digunakan dalam rawatan perubatan secara tradisional. Ia juga digunakan untuk kecantikan dan adat istiadat.

Kecantikan seseorang bukan hanya pada wajah menawan atau penampilan bergaya sahaja. Kecantikan sebenar adalah terletak pada keindahan dalaman.

Sireh banyak digunakan dalam keguanaan untuk rawatan perubatan secara tradisional. Selain itu ia juga digunakan untuk hantaran peminangan bagi adat orang-orang Melayu Malaysia. Bagi masyarakat India pula, ianya selalu digunakan untuk dijadikan makan bagi orang-orang dewasa. Masyarakat Melayu dahulu juga menyukai memakan sirih ini.

Jika dilihat, kebiasaannya, pengamal yang memakan daun sireh ini bisanya mempunyai ketahanan gigi yang sangat kuat. Mempunyai bibir yang merah. Kemerahan ini menyerlah sehinggalah ke gusi-gusi dan gigi-gigi mereka.

# Jika diteliti sehelai daun sirih, bentuknya seakan-akan bentuk kemaluan wanita. Bahkan ada yang mengatakan ia berbentuk peta negara India dan kebetulan salasilahnya penemuan awalnya di India.

# Ianya disifatkan sebagai daun yang terbaik untuk perubatan dan membantu memperbaiki sistem peranakan. Ianya juga banyak digunakan untuk penyucian alat sulit wanita kerana sifatnya sebagai pembersih dalaman.

# Membantu menyembuhkan hidung berdarah dengan hanya menggunakan sehelai daun sirih. Daun dilipat kecil dan sumbatkan dengan mendonggakkan kepala pesakit.

# Airnya digunakan untuk membersihkan bahagian alat sulit wanita.

# Sifatnya yang pedas seperti bunga cengkih, menjadikannya sesuai untuk pewangi mulut.

# Simbolik adat peminangan dan perkahwinan orang Melayu atau majlis-majlis rasmi.

# Dikatakan ada aura jika ada lelaki atau wanita yang belum ketemu jodoh apabila mereka menemui sirih bertemu urat.

Malaysian Herbal Medicine History

Malaysian Herbal Medicine History

Traditionally, Malaysian herbal medicines include teas (infusions & decoctions), tinctures, poultices and salves. The usual practice was very much on a patient-herbal practitioner basis.

The earliest documentation on herbal medicines in Malaya dated back to 1886. It was by Munshi Ismail, a language teacher and translator. His translation was subsequently edited and published by Gimlette and Burkill in 1930. This document described a total of 543 prescriptions using about 260 identifiable plant species used in the treatment of various illnesses and disorders.

In that same year, Burkill and Haniff published another account on the "Malay Village Medicine" which documented the uses of about 650 native plants. Following this was the publication of the monumental and still highly referred to account, A Dictionary of the Economic Products of the Malay Peninsula, by Burkill (1935) which documented the

uses of about 1,200 native and exotic plants.

The beginning of the 19th century heralded an era during which there were efforts to purify the active, secondary-metabolite principles of medicinal plants. These purified constituents were then introduced into therapy as evidenced in the formulation of morphine, qUinine, atropine, papaverine, cocaine and pilocarpine. Scientific research into the medicinal or biological properties of Malaysian plants or herbal recipes was unheard of in those olden years of the 1950s-I960s. While the greater part of the world in China, Japan, Europe and USA was busy making novel discoveries from medicinal plants, little local scientific research was conducted on Malaysian plants.

Some unsystematic scientific investigations kicked off in the 1970s. However, the earliest record of phytochemical screening could only be traced back to 1959. The main reason for this unsatisfactory scenario is the lack of trained scientists, limited infrastructure and funding for such endeavors. There was also inadequate coordination among those involved.

Medicine Plant To Society

Medicine Plants To Society

The healing relationship between humans and plants streches back almost as far as the dawn of mankind. Throughout the world, medicinal plants have been used to treat all kinds of common ailments and have evolved to become recognized as traditional medicine. Tradisional medicine is synonymous with herbal of folk medicine.

Around 80% of the population in developing countries still use herbal medicines for their health care.



Hubungan penyembuhan diantara manusia dan tumbuhan kembali semula ke permulaan pemikiran asal manusia. Seluruh dunia, tumbuhan ubatan telah digunakan untuk mengubati penyakit-penyakit ringan dan telah berkembang serta dikenali sebagai Ubatan Tradisional. Ubatan Tradisional beerti uabtan dari tumbuhan-tumbuhan herba.

Hampir 80% pepolasi di negara membangun masih lagi menggunakan ubatan herba untuk menjaga kesihatan.