The Ginger is Known

Active ingredient of ginger for the drug lever, anticancer, and heart patented foreign parties in the United States. Wild Ginger is a plant species native to Indonesia and, if used as an active ingredient of commercial drugs, should be the division of benefits."It's part of biopiracy (piracy of genetic resources) that should be benefit sharing or distribution of its benefits," said Chairman of the Indonesian Association of Doctors Medical Herbs (PDHMI) Hardhi Pranata, Tuesday (19/10), at the International Conference of Plant Medicines held 19 to 21 October 2010 in Building Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), Jakarta.
Hardhi said third active ingredient herbal remedies from ginger (Curcuma xanthorrhiza) that since the last two or three years the company manufactured the drug in Indonesia and has been circulating in the market. The company was also bound registration of patents from the United States.
"The price of herbal medicines is now 1,000 times more expensive than the drugs with the same raw material that is actually a long time also produced in the country," said Hardhi.
Herbal medicine produced by other countries with raw materials from Indonesia have shown increasing interest in the world trend towards herbal medicine, but Indonesia is not ready to protect their genetic resources.
"The trend back to natural medicine began to demand and as many as 12 hospitals were successfully encouraged to open a clinic herbal medicine," said Hardhi.
The 12 hospitals are Sanglah General Hospital, Bali; Dharmais Cancer Hospital, Jakarta; Friendship Hospital, Jakarta, and Dr Soetomo Hospital, Surabaya.
Then Wahidin Hospital, Makassar; Mintohardjo Navy Hospital, Jakarta; Pirngadi Hospital, Medan; Syaiful Anwar Hospital, Malang; Dr Suharso, Solo; Dr Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta; RS Suraji, Klaten, and RS Kandau, Manado.