Life Pharmacy : The benefits behind it

A. Explanation of Life Pharmacy

: Many plants are useful for healing and healing. The medicinal properties and positive effects of some medicinal plants were known long before scientists invented various chemical drugs. You can also grow and use medicinal plants in your home as a living pharmacy. The definition of a living pharmacy is using part of the land to be planted with medicinal plants for daily needs. It is generally known that many traditional medicines can be used to treat various diseases. Traditional medicine is generally safer because it is natural and has fewer side effects than factory-made medicines. Don't Worry. Medicinal plants are no less beautiful than ornamental plants. You can also plant it among existing ornamental plants or flowers. In addition, medicinal plants are generally stronger against various plant diseases because they contain natural substances to overcome them, so you don't need to apply pesticides.

B. The history of Live Pharmacy

: The history of pharmacy as an independent science dates back to the first third of the 19th century. Before then, the pharmacy evolved from antiquity as part of medicine. The history of pharmacy coincides well with the history of medicine, but it's important that there is a distinction between the two topics. Pharmaceuticals is one of the most-researched fields in the academic industry, but the history surrounding that particular topic is sparse compared to the impact it made world-wide. Before the advent of pharmacists, there existed apothecaries that worked alongside priests and physicians in regard to patient care.

 

The earliest known Chinese manual on materia medica is the Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Herb-Root Classic), dating back to the 1st century AD. It was compiled during the Han dynasty and was attributed to the mythical Shennong. Earlier literature included lists of prescriptions for specific ailments, exemplified by a manuscript "Recipes for 52 Ailments", found in the Mawangdui, sealed in 168 BC. Further details on Chinese pharmacy can be found in the Pharmacy in China article.

The earliest known compilation of medicinal substances in Indian traditional medicine dates to the 3rd or 4th century AD )(attributed to Sushruta, who is recorded as a physician of the 6th century BC).

There is a stone sign for a pharmacy with a tripod, a mortar, and a pestle opposite one for a doctor in the Arcadian Way in Ephesus, Turkey.

In Japan, at the end of the Asuka period (538-710) and the early Nara period (710-794), the men who fulfilled roles similar to those of modern pharmacists were highly respected. The place of pharmacists in society was expressly defined in the Taihō Code (701) and re-stated in the Yōrō Code (718). Ranked positions in the pre-Heian Imperial court were established; and this organizational structure remained largely intact until the Meiji Restoration (1868). In this highly stable hierarchy, the pharmacists—and even pharmacist assistants—were assigned status superior to all others in health-related fields such as physicians and acupuncturists. In the Imperial household, the pharmacist was even ranked above the two personal physicians of the Emperor

C. Living Pharmacy Cultivation
Creating a small garden like planting family medicinal plants is not a difficult thing to do. You don't need a lot of space, because they won't grow big and take up a lot of space. You also don't need a lot of containers, all you need is a polybag or a small pot.

D. Medicinal Plants 

1. Ginger

Translated from English-Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger, or ginger is widely used as a spice and traditional medicine. It is an herbaceous perennial plant that grows annual pseudostems about one meter high with narrow leaf blades
• The next benefit of ginger is to treat rheumatism and osteoarthritis. By drinking ginger water regularly, its content can reduce and prevent inflammation of muscles and bones
• potential antimicrobials that can help in treating infectious diseases
• the benefits of ginger are said to prevent various cancers.

2. Betel

Betel is a native Indonesian plant that grows vines or leans on other tree trunks. As a culture, the leaves and fruit are usually chewed together with gambier, areca nut, tobacco, and lime. However, chewing betel has been linked to oral cancer and the formation of malignant squamous cell carcinoma
Functions:
• Lowering blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. 
• Lower cholesterol and blood pressure. 
• Antidote to cancer. 
• Accelerate the healing of burns. 
• Helps reduce depression.

3. Cat's Whiskers Leaf

Cat's whiskers leaf is a fast-growing perennial herb to a height of 1 to 2 meters.
• cure diseases, such as kidneys.
• helps relieve symptoms of rheumatism and gout
• may also help increase urine flow

4. Aloe Vera

Aloe vera is a plant species with thick fleshy leaves of the genus Aloe. This plant is chronic, originates from the Arabian Peninsula, and its wild plants have spread to tropical, semi-tropical, and dry climates in various parts of the world.
Functions:
• treat digestive problems
• useful as an alternative mouthwash.
• heal wounds,
• improves digestive health,
• maintain oral health, and acne medication.

5. Fennel

Fennel or hot fennel has long been known as a spice plant or medicinal plant. The fennel oil contained in the seeds of this plant is one of the components of telon oil. This plant can live in the lowlands to an altitude of 1,800 meters above sea level
Functions:
• relieves cold,
• improve blood flow,
• relieves pain,
• lowers uric acid levels

( Naila Diva Fauziah )

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