Natural, Herbal and Traditional Contraception in Indonesia

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The tendency of people looking for natural products or non-chemical currently making herbal products and traditional choice is no exception for the purpose of contraception. For centuries, traditional herbal ingredients and a mainstay for preventing and delaying pregnancy.

Actually, how the contraceptive effectiveness of herbal / traditional can be scientifically justified today? Many researchers have conducted research on anti-fertility substances of this nature and so far several studies have shown encouraging results and promising. So far only China and India are doing a lot of research about this herbal contraceptive reliability. In Indonesia alone the use of herbs or medicinal plants as contraceptives has long been known to the public in some areas.

When will use herbs and traditional contraceptives, you should consider how much risk is your current pregnancy? This means that if the current couples for any reason and in any condition really do not want the pregnancy, the contraceptive use of herbal / traditional is not the best choice. Why? Since contraception is more intended as an experimental contraceptive or contraceptive trials, which do not yet have sufficient scientific evidence such as modern contraceptives available today. Precisely best herbal contraception / contraceptive traditionally used as a backup only.

If you are aged under 20 years of contraceptive herbal / traditional is not a wise choice because:
1. Does not protect couples from sexual disease transmission.
2. This contraceptive method has not proven to be absolute and measurable.
3. Some herbal products contain hormones and compounds that can affect the endocrine system work (without a channel control system of the body glands release the hormone) is young and still growing.

M Wien Winarno and Dian Sundari in 1997 in the Mirror World Medicine magazine once wrote that no fewer than 74 types of plants that are empirically used as a traditional contraceptive in several regions in Indonesia. Based on the results of the study recorded 18 plants collected may be used as a female contraceptive and 13 plants for male contraception.

Furthermore Wien Winarno and Dian Sundari explained that the use of contraceptives from plants to consider the nature of damage or effects on the reproductive system in both men or women, should be used in plants that affect the reproductive system that is temporary (reversible), ie when the drug is not used anymore, reproductive system is normal again, so it does not happen sterility.

So that it can be concluded that if the voluntary and conscious couples with contraceptive use herbal / traditional as the primary means of contraception choices they have volunteered to do the experiment yourself with the risks of pregnancy, as many contraceptive herbal / traditional is VERY dependent on the correct treatment and times of use appropriate.