Primbon Treatment in Serat Jampi Jawi, Covering Physical and Spiritual Aspects

Kapanlagi.com - Traditional treatment has become part of the culture, especially in the Javanese community. It is proven that in the Javanese community, there is a known primbon treatment. From ancient times until now, the treatment written in the Javanese primbon is still held and relied upon.

Interestingly, in the Javanese primbon, treatment is not only about physical healing. Javanese primbon treatment often involves spiritual and energy aspects. In the treatment primbon, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects are also taken into account. This is because the concept of Javanese primbon treatment believes in the relationship between nature and humans.

Curious about the explanation of Javanese primbon treatment, which is very traditional but still relied upon until now? Just take a look at the following review.

1. Serat Primbon Jampi Jawi

Illustration of Jampi Jawi Primbon (credit: unsplash)

Traditional medicine is indeed one of the things discussed in Javanese primbon. There is one primbon manuscript that specifically discusses traditional healing methods. That manuscript is Serat Primbon Jampi Jawi.

From the past until now, this manuscript is still often used as a reference in Javanese traditional healing practices. In Javanese, people refer to the healing section in the manuscript as Tamba Jawa (Javanese medicine).

As for the physical form of the Serat Primbon Jampi Jawi manuscript, one of them can currently be found in the Reksopustoko Manggkunegaran Library in Surakarta with collection number M 33. Overall, this manuscript covers 82 pages and is a printed manuscript published by Tan Kun Swie in Kediri in 1949.

In Serat Primbon Jampi Jawi, there are various authentic Javanese herbal medicine recipes. Each recipe has been proven to have many health benefits passed down through generations. In addition, this manuscript also details various components used to treat specific diseases, including processing methods and application of the treatment.

2. Spices for Primbon Treatment

As mentioned earlier, primbon treatment is done with herbal medicine or potions. In Serat Primbon Jampi Jawi, it is also clearly mentioned the spices or ingredients that are often used for treatment. Some of these spices include medicinal plants that indeed have various health benefits.

Some medicinal plants that are often included in the potion are sambilata leaves, meniran leaves, red turi leaves, widoro leaves, and many more. The combination of various types of medicinal plants is believed to become a traditional potion that provides healing effects for the diseases.

However, not only spices or medicinal plants, often there are also various other additional ingredients in the herbal medicine or potion that enhance its benefits such as honey, milk, eggs, and so on. Besides being a complement, these non-spice ingredients are also believed to provide extraordinary nutrition and benefits in traditional treatment.

3. How to Process and Mix According to Primbon

Illustration of How to Process and Mix According to Primbon (credit: unsplash)

Not only in spices and ingredients, Serat Primbon Jampi Jawi also explains other details in creating potions or medicinal jamu. Because, in mixing according to the teachings of primbon medicine, not only ingredients are needed. In addition to the above spice ingredients, several traditional tools are also used.

Some of the common tools used in primbon medicine include pots or pans for boiling, mortar and pestle for grinding, sieve for straining liquid in the potion, mortar and pestle for pounding.

The result of the pounding process will become a liquid potion that can be consumed. In addition to drinking it, the potion can also be applied to specific parts of the body. Applying the soft dough to the affected area such as wounds, forehead or temples, stomach, and other areas.

4. Methods of Primbon Treatment

Illustration of Primbon Treatment Methods (credit: unsplash)

In addition to the Serat Primbon Jampi Jawi, Javanese Primbon also explains several methods commonly used in traditional treatment. As reported by babad.id, here are some types of methods commonly applied in Javanese primbon treatment.

1. Conducting Diagnosis

Conducting a diagnosis is the initial step in determining the type of disease. Interestingly, Javanese primbon categorizes diseases using a calculation of time called neptu. By calculating the number of neptu and paying attention to the day the disease appears, it can analyze the origin of the disease, the severity level, and its location.

Furthermore, according to the primbon view, diseases can be caused by fate, individual behavior, intervention of supernatural beings, or black practices such as witchcraft, hexes, and spells.

2. Treatment Methods with Rituals

Javanese Primbon also includes various treatment methods that involve the selection of herbal remedies and their administration. There are various treatment techniques that include drinking herbal medicine or cekok (using herbal concoctions), performing bobok, parem, boreh, pilis, pupuk, tapel (external treatment), semburan (external treatment), and also ritual-based treatment methods such as mantras, suwuk, kidung, and rajah.

Traditional treatment in Javanese primbon often combines ritual and magical elements as important parts of the healing process.

2. Treatment by Cleansing the Soul

After going through the previous steps, the sick individual is asked to cleanse the disease by giving alms according to applicable norms. This process is often held in ceremonies such as slametan or kenduri berdoa.

Those are some brief explanations related to traditional Javanese primbon treatment that are still widely used today. Hopefully it is useful.

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