Jamu helps people to heal quickly, rejuvenate, and strengthen immune system

               Jamu is a go-to solution drink for all kinds of common ailments, ranging from infertility to increasing libido.  People in the island of Bali and Java depend on these drinks for their health, energy, strength, body-mind balance, and internal and external radiance.  Its origin remains a mystery but its impact on the lives of these people is enormous. 

               There are more than three hundred blends of jamu today, some are bitter while others are sweet but jamu is known, taken regularly, would keep those health worries away.  It functions as more than health drink to the people of Bali and Java, it has become a routine for these people to drink it to relieve aches and pains, revive energy, maintain strength, and body-mind balance.  The people of the island of Java consume it daily to balance their inner and outer physical beauty, and mental clarity. Jamu is an integrated health system perfected by the people of the island of Java in Indonesia.

               Long before time was measured in terms of hours and minutes, and long before the world discovers aspirins and antibiotics, people in the island of Java and Bali discovered the concept of jamu as a solution to their health issues.  Our ancestors worked to perfect jamu, a complex blend of spices, and other ingredients that provide them with solution to keep themselves healthy, balance, and happy. They used their indigenous knowledge and skills in blending  jamu, perfect drinks, that provide nutrition needed for healthy body and mind.  A glass of jamu a day will keep those chronic ailments away.

                It helps people to heal quickly, rejuvenate, and strengthen immune system.  One needs to drink it once a day and very soon you will feel and appreciate it.  Jamu is a liquid blend of several types plants, flowers, leaves, barks, roots fruits and tree saps and people of the island of Java drink jamu daily. The Javanese people in Indonesia believe that jamu is precious gift from Almighty that helps them to lead a healthy and happy lifestyle.

                 According to the people in the island Java, Indonesia, jamu is a functional drink, wellness drink, and healthy drink that provide balance in our life.  It is also a way of life, “My life is like Jamu – some days I need to be bitter while other days I have sweet days”

Reduce Your Blood Pressure with Cucumber Juice!

Cucumber Juice for Blood Pressure

                  Reduce Your Blood Pressure with Cucumber Juice! When it comes to cucumber, most of us just throw a few on our salad at lunch or dinner and call it good. Some of us probably use them to reduce puffiness around the eyes fore often than we actually eat them. If you want the real benefit of cucumbers, take them off your eyes and pop them into the juicer (not the same ones!) Cucumber juice can help with your skin, just like slices, but it’s actually more beneficial in reducing your high blood pressure. So, before you go on a dangerous blood pressure medicine, or if your meds aren’t working as well as they should, try drinking a nice, tall glass of refreshing cucumber juice.

               There was a study done recently that showed foods high in potassium, magnesium and fiber can reduce blood pressure. In combination with a healthy diet these foods reduced study participants systolic blood pressure by 5 points and their diastolic blood pressure by 3.5 points. So what’s this have to do with cucumber? Well, cucumbers are not only high in these three nutrients; they’re also a significant source of Vitamins A and K, folate, caffeic acid, and silica. They also contain a significant amount of Vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant that may also help to lower blood pressure.

                  Since cucumber juice isn’t exactly a high demand product, your best bet for quality is to make your own. Making your own juice is great with any fruit or vegetable because you know what’s going into your juice and you know it’s fresh and full of live, active enzymes. Cucumber is great for juicing because the water content is so high within the pulp; however, this means that most of the nutrients are actually contained within the skin. You should buy unwaxed cucumber if possible because waxed cucumbers generally require pealing, removing valuable nutrient content. Get your cucumbers from the refrigerated section of the grocery store and make sure to put them in your fridge when you get home. They don’t stay fresh very long, so don’t wait longer than a day or two to juice them. Try to choose cucumbers that are firm, rounded, and that have a bright to dark green color. These are the best quality and will give you the best results.

                    If you want the benefits of cucumber juice, but just don’t think you can stand the taste, try mixing it with other juices. Carrot and Celery juices can both taste great when mixed with cucumber, plus they have great benefits of their own. If neither or those juices spark your fancy, use your imagination and start mixing. You probably don’t want to go too crazy, but if you can find a combination you like the taste of, you’re more likely to actually bother drinking the juice everyday.

                   In addition to lowering your blood pressure, cucumbers can improve your skin, help grow hair, nails, and teeth, and even clean out your kidney. So, if you want to reduce your blood pressure while also promoting other factors of good health, why don’t you try throwing a few cucumbers in your juicer?

Mahkota Dewa

Diabetes ‘Mated’ to Mahkota Dewa

Mrs. Tjandra Dewi – Jl. Sriwijaya No. 5  Magelang

I was born in a family with a hearty liking for good food and drink, and a life free from trouble and worry.  My father is one of seven siblings, all married and living  in the same house.  Every day these families will compete with each other in preparing the most delicious food to be enjoyed by all and be praised by the other families.  The food they are fond to eat are seafood, chicken, beef, and pork.  This has become a tradition for generations of our family.  It is not surprising if the members of my family were to contract diabetes, heart diseases, cholesterol, or high blood pressure.

My background is exactly the opposite of the background of my husband who is used to living frugally.  During the early days of our marriage, we were really crawling up from down under.  My husband at first started a Popsicle business.  In the 1970’s , he started a tofu business.  The output sufficed to give our children a modest pattern of life.  Not satisfied with the tofu output, in 1973 my husband turned to a spices business, seasonings meant to be added to pecel (a salad made of blanched vegetables served with peanut sauce) to make it more tasty.  He labeled the product: Kalkun.  Seven years later, he expanded his business  producing soy sauce, labeled Kalkun also.  Because his product is based on an old-fashioned  recipe, no preservatives are used.

As a wife, I fully support my husband’s efforts, assisting in the production of seasonings and soy sauces, handling the sales and claims. Yet being thus engaged, I do not forget my status as a housewife.  I go to market every day for our household needs.  Because of the hearty liking for food established in my youth, my household too follows his pattern.  Each time I go to the market, I always buy sweets and various kinds of snacks for my children and family.  I have been doing this for years.  It is not surprising if my children are pudgy.  As a matter of fact, I have been reminded repeatedly to change my eating pattern, but that is difficult.  In the end, I had to sow the consequences.  Since 1996, I have been stricken by diabetes mellitus.  The children too contracted cholesterol, triglyceride and arthritis.  Ironically, the level of sugar in my husband’s blood is often too low due to his simple and careful eating habits for fear to be stricken by a disease like mine.  No use in crying over spilt milk.  The disease already resides in my body.

Remorse won’t cure the disease.  Because I do wish to regain my health, I visit the doctor regularly.

Laboratory tests showed the level of sugar in my blood to be above 300.  Normally, it should be 140.  Diabetes patients usually depend on drugs for life.  That is also the case with me.  Yet even though I take the doctor’s medicine regularly, keep a strict diet, my sugar level is never less than 300.  I am tired of having to consume medicine all the time, not to mention the side effect of the drug that is basically a chemical.  In early 2002, one of the doctors changed my treatment.  Instead of the drug, I was given  insulin injections twice daily.  This was meant to give my pancreas a rest from producing insulin.

One day, I got a package of a Mahkota Dewa concoction from my son Henki Purnama in Jakarta. He himself has consumed the concoction to deal with arthritis (10), cholesterol  (240) and triglyceride (340).

“Ma, try this.  I used to suffer from headaches and swollen feet. After I consumed this concoction, all my complaints disappeared, I can sleep soundly, and I feel fit, like new”.

“I am used to taking the doctor’s medicine.  I fear something may happen if I consume this concoction”.

“But Ma, you should try it first.   It is not  artificial, so don’t be afraid of side effects”

In the end, I was persuaded to try.  Still, I was wary.  I trusted the doctor more.  I  sometimes drink the concoction, but not regularly. Thus, I did  not feel any significant changes.  After one week, I did not feel drinking it any more.

Luckily, in December 2002 Ibu Ning and her husband  who happens to be a friend of my son, visited us on their way to Yogyakarta.  Ibu Ning asked about the condition of my health, and whether I continue to consume her concoction.  I told her that I don’t have the patience to consume it routinely..  Ibu Ning then told us about her experience in handling diabetes patients.  According to her experience, most of her patients were “mated” to mahkota dewa.

To be sure of the efficacy of the concoction, she suggested that I check my sugar level, cholesterol, arthritis at the laboratory.  Then I should consume mahkota dewa routinely.  Two weeks later,  check again at the lab.  In my experience, the level of sugar in your blood will certainly drop, even though you do not take the doctor’s medicine, she said.  “But you must regulate your eating pattern.  Also, when engaging in physical exercises.”

Ibu Ning tried to convince me by quoting lab results of people who were cured.

Hearing her explanations, I began to believe her.  I started drinking the concoction regularly.  I did not take the doctor’s medicine, but did visit the doctor for  the  scale 8 insulin injections.  When I started consuming the concoction regularly, the level of sugar in my blood was 300 .  Checking at the lab two weeks later, my sugar level was only 132! Meaning, normal.  The doctor was amazed .  Though I take the doctor’s medicine, keep a strict diet, and engage in physical exercise, the level of  sugar  of my blood was never this normal.  The insulin injections too dropped from scale 8 to scale 6.  I also feel fit.

Ibu Ning recommended that I add sidaguri tea to the concoction.   With this encouraging result,  I now truly believe in the efficacy of the concoction.  I told all my friends and family stricken by diabetes.

My daughter, Jesi Purnama, who is chubby  with triglyceride  600, and cholesterol 240, wants to try it too.  Her complaints are stiff and painful feeling in muscles, headache, hands go to sleep.  She only consumed instant Made Murni.  After two weeks, her complaints gradually disappeared.  My husband too started consuming mahkota dewa.  He chooses Made Super that tasted like a ginger drink.  It also makes him feel fit.

I thank God because the disease that for so long  has darkened my life has gradually disappeared.  My family and I express our thanks to Ibu Ning Harmanto.  Without her, we may still be struggling with these chronic diseases.  Our thanks also to Indonesia for making available the mahkota dewa plant the efficacy of which  far exceeds state-of-the-art  medicinal substances.

 

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