One of our traditional beverage is jamu. It’s tonic or herbs made by rhizome, leaves, or fruits. It’s either in liquid form, powder, or dried leaves. It tastes bitter, so it’s better drank with sugar or honey.
Jamu are sold by many ways, but the one we used to see the most is “jamu gendong” or a female seller who carry a basket of jamu bottles in her back. Nowadays we don’t see this kind of seller so often. Insted, we can see male and female sellers who sell jamu by riding a bycicle.
Another kind of jamu seller is a stall with STMJ speciality. STMJ stands for Susu Telor Madu Jahe or Milk Eggs Honey Ginger, which is one of the most popular jamu mixtures among adult males.
Jamu convinced to be good for health and able to cure cough, muscle pain, sprues, and it’s also good for women who is on diet or men’s sexual health.
There are a lot of jamu mixtures, such as beras kencur (made of rice and greater galingale), kunir asam (made of turmeric, tamarind, and other plants), jamu pahitan (made of sambiloto—latin: Anrographis Paniculata) and many others. Each mixtures has its own benefit for our body.
For beginners, jamu might be hard to drink. But for our ancestors, jamu is like a daily drink, and that’s how they keep their body healthy before they knew any of modern medical treatments.
I can’t stand most jamu mixtures either, but I often drink beras kencur. It tastes rather sweet, so it’s easy to drink.
Next time you find a jamu seller around, please give it a try. You can try beras kencur for starter. But I tell you now, it’s not good for those who’s on diet, because it’s raising appetite.
Those who’s on diet, please try kunir asam instead. It tastes rather sour, and good for women.
By the way, please pardon my bad English. m(_ _)m
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