Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Medicinal Herbs From Global Market Interest

Herbal remedies began ogled the global market so that there should be an increase in production of the country, said Director of PT Phapros Tbk Iswanto.

"For Phapros own products made ​​from natural herbal remedy traditionally managed sales accounted for 5 percent," he said in Semarang, Tuesday (9/9).

According to him, two herbal products that contribute to the sales Phapros Tensigard and X-gra. The product contains herbs cat's whiskers and celery for Tensigard, while the plants of the earth pegs used for X-gra.

"To increase sales, we plan to market the product abroad because there are many herbal products in demand by foreign markets," he explained.

In the near future these two Phapros will export these products to Afghanistan and Nigeria, he said the two countries had already become a destination countries PT Phapros one of them for products Antimo.

For raw materials can be obtained easily in Indonesia, on the other terms of the type of plants have started to develop a lot. "For the future development is needed standardization of herbal product itself because we have to adjust to the destination country standards," he explained.

According to him, the export is done not only to boost the growth of the domestic pharmaceutical industry but also as a potential natural momentum to introduce Indonesian traditional plant one.

While the field of Pharmacy UGM Yogkakarta expert Prof. Edi Meiyanto said to be widely marketed herbal medicine should be supported by a number of parties, especially those related to the regulation.

It is said, the use of herbal products for universal treatment requires a commitment for all parties because the product has the potential to increase the global competitiveness especially will face the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015.

"Some parties must commit related to production and marketing of this herbal medicine among government, universities, industry, and research institutes," he explained.

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