Various plants form the basis of multiple traditional ethnic cuisines and ethnomedicinal practices across the globe. The ethnic cuisines cater to the nutritional, dietary and medicinal requirements of the tribal and rural communities even today. Using literature from various scholarly databases, this study was conducted to consolidate a comprehensive review on the use of Sauropus androgynus (L.…
Page Header USER Username Password Remember me ABOUT THE AUTHORS Sa'roni Sa'roni Pusat Penelitian dan Pengembangan Farmasi dan Obat Tradisional, Balitbangkes. Depkes, Jakarta. Indonesia Tonny Sadjiman Clinical Epidemiologi & Biostatistic Unit, Gajah Mada Faculty of Medicine/RSUP DR.Sardjito, Yogyakarta Indonesia Mochammad Sja'bani Clinical Epidemiologi & Biostatistic Unit, G…
Sauropus androgynus is traditionally consumed by Indonesians and is believed to increase breast milk production during lactation. Lactation, a process of milk synthesis and secretion, occurs with the help of 2 hormones, prolactin and oxytocin. The expressions of genes encoding prolactin and oxytocin were analyzed in lactating BALB/C mice brains using qRT-PCR.
Coleus amboinicus Lour (CA) has been used as a breast milk stimulant (a lactagogue) by Bataknese people in Indonesia for hundreds of years. However, the traditional use of CA is not well documented, and scientific evidence is limited to establish CA as a lactagogue. This investigation was conducted to elucidate the effect of traditional use of CA during the first month of lactation on quantity …