Sarang Semut

Sarang Semut 

M – CARE

Indonesia is a nation where passes through , an archipelago of more than 17000 islands. An exotic country with sixty percent of its land being covered by forest, making it one of the countries with richest
bio diversities in the world. Scholars have estimated that Indonesia possesses around 30,000 plant species of which only less than 5% have been studied. Scholars around the world have always been
interested in these primitive societies still existing in our current world. Some scholars show great interest in the traditional medications practiced by these societies, in hope to find potentials for new
source of therapeutic agents to answer the most challenging questions in the medical society, especially the Life style diseases and Cancer. One of the identified medicinal plants is SARANG SEMUT (Myrmecodia pendants). The first information about this plant originated from empirical knowledge of local Papuan society located in Eastern Indonesia. They have been using Sarang Semut plant as medication for various diseases.