The Benefit of

Traditional Medicine in
Daily Life as a Local
Wisdom

Chintya|M. Fikri Ansori|Rizky Maulana|

Taufiqqurahman

What is Traditional Medicine?

Traditional medicine is the sum total of the
knowledge, skills, and practices based on the
theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous
to different cultures, whether explicable or
not, used in the maintenance of health as well
as in the prevention, diagnosis, improvement
or treatment of physical and mental illness.

In daily life some people still use the

traditional medicine and they are not
interested to modern medicine.

Why
?

The reason is because of the

benefits of traditional medicine.
You will never get the benefits from
modern medicine

Traditional Medicine are

Cheaper and Easier to Get

Onion as the Traditional

Medicine
You can buy onion
in
traditional
market, stall, or
maybe you have
the stocks in your
kitchen. Onion is a
good choice to
reduce the fever.

Lime and Soysauce as the

Traditional Medicine
They are cheaper
than modern
medicine such as
syrup. You can
mix them to make
your own
medicine. Use it to
treat your cough.

Traditional Medicine does not Contains

Dangerous Chemical Compounds

The Traits
Traditional Medicine

Modern Medicine

It has natural
substances
It treat from the
source of
disease

It has chemical
substance
It just treat the
symptoms of
disease

The Traditional Medicine Have

no Side Effects

Because of they have a

natural
substance,
they
have no side effects.
For example: the used of
soysauce and limes mix can
improve the body immune.
It different if you used the
paracetamol. It can give the
side effects in the long-term
use, such as decrease your
body imune and potentially
make you get asthma.

The Conclusion
Traditional Medicine

Modern Medicine

Low price and easy to

get
Does not contains
dangerous chemical
compounds
Have no the side
effects

High price and difficult

to get
Potentially contains
dangerous chemical
compounds
Have the side effects