Indonesia Forest Produce Organic Chemicals

Indonesia Forest Produce Organic Chemicals

Palangkaraya - A senior researcher from the University of Palangkaraya (Unpar) Central Kalimantan (Central Kalimantan), Prof. Dr. H. Ciptadi, MS said that Indonesia's tropical forests produce mikromolekul organic chemistry.

Citing the literature of tropical forests of Indonesia, compiled by more than 30 thousand species of higher plants that can be viewed as a natural engineering of industrial organic chemicals produced mikromolekul, said H Ciptadi, in Palangkaraya, Wednesday (26 / 8).

These plants, said Chairman Unpar Research Institute who is also professor of biochemistry / organic chemistry, can be used for health as for medicine and herbal medicine, but their utilization is still too small.

Utilization of plants for the drug, according to him, only about one percent of the approximately 750 types of plants that spread in this world.

In Indonesia from 30 thousand species, only used only about 250 species of plants, or about 0.83 percent for the needs of these drugs.

Itupun utilization for medicinal plants along with the increasing needs of growing drug increasingly accompanied by increased prices of medicines on the market.

Therefore, the Doctor (S3) ENSCM dropout biomolecules chemistry University of Montpellier II, France, the required effort to explore the natural resources of medicinal plants native to Indonesia.

Drug utilization, or made from materials derived from plants, in addition to easy and cheap, also reported rare side effects.

In order to realize the business in Indonesia using the original drug, the government has given protection and supervision by researching the use and benefits of standardization as well as seek new sources of original drug Indonsia it, he said.

Medicinal plants is one of the plants, some, or all parts of leaves, flowers, fruit, fruit leather, bark, stems, roots, and tubers of plants contain the active substance or substances which merit for health or treatment.

To quote another expert opinions, H. Ciptadi mentioned, there are groupings medicinal plants, namely traditional medicinal plants are plants that are known or believed to have the efficacy of the drug community and has been used as raw materials.

The second group of modern medicinal plants, ie plant species have been scientifically proven ingredients contain bioactive compounds or drugs are efficacious and its use is medically justifiable.

Another group, the potential medicinal plants, namely the use of plant species contain active compounds or materials that benefit, but not yet scientifically proven, or its use as an ingredient of traditional medicine is difficult traced. (Ant / yan)