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Medicinal plants (herbs) are plants that are known to have certain compounds that are nutritious for health. Each part of the medicinal plant is believed to have various properties to prevent, diverse or even cure a certain disease. In Indonesia there are 30,000 types of plants and 7000 of them are classified as medicinal plants (herbs)[1]. In addition to the many presence of these medicinal plants, the use of medicinal plants is also considered to be safer because it has natural ingredients compared to chemical medicine. To find out the content of medicinal plants can be done by phytochemical screening methods, so it can be known active compounds that are in certain plants that can be useful as a madicine[2]. The human body is complex and organic, while chemical medicines contain chemicals that are inorganic and pure. Therefore, chemical medicine are considered not suitable for consumption by the human body, which if consumed continuously can even be bad for human health. However, some chemical drugs are actually symptomatic (temporary) so they must be taken for life by patients with certain diseases[3]. The number of medicinal plants is still not balanced with the public's knowledge about the medicinal plants themselves, so many people prefer chemical medicines because they are considered more practical and easy to obtain.