Herb-SHM-PP

In the previous entry, opik has discussed about corticosteroid that is mixed onto herbs, and now, in this post, opik will write about herbs, which, for language and term problems, will be changed to traditional medicine for now.

In Indonesia, traditional medicine is diveded into 3 groups, herbs, standardized herbal medicine(SHM), and phytopharmaca(PP), with their logo like this:

the difference betwen them is the efficacy and the safety of Herbs are gained traditionally from generation to generation, SHM has been tested pre-clinically, it has been tested to animals (usually rats and mice). The last one, PP, has passed clinical test, so the safety and efficacy has been tested to humans.

Which one is better?

well opik will answer Phytopharmaca, Why? because it has been tested to humans, so it's efficacy and safety is more guaranteed. The order is like this --> PP>SHM>Herb

It's not like herb and SHM is not good, but the efficacy and safety is not guaranteed for human.

Sosee the logo for your choice, opik advice you choose the Phytopharmaca