Herbal medicine is the name for the traditional medicine of Indonesia. Later, popularly known as herbs or herbal.

Herbal medicine made from natural materials, such as parts of plants such as rhizomes (roots), leaves, bark, and fruit. There is also the use of materials of animal body, such as bile goat, snake bile, or tangkur crocodile. Often chicken egg yolk is also used for an additional mix in carrying medicinal.

Jamu usually tasted bitter so need to add honey as a sweetener to taste more tolerable drinker. Even some herbs coupled with wine. Besides as a reduction of the bitter taste, the wine also serves to warm the body.