Tambar Ni Hulit: A Text Containing Medicines in North Sumatera: One of The Alternative Ingredients Based on Local Wisdom Needed to be Developed As Indonesian Medicine Nurhayati Harahap (a*), Siti Norma Nasution (b), Haris Sutan Lubis (c), Jamorlan Siahaan (d)
a) Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Jl. Universitas No.19, Medan, 20155, Indonesia
*Nurhayati1[at]usu.ac.id
b,c,d) Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Sumatera Utara
Abstract
Tambar ni hulit, in Batak language means skin medicine, is one of the old manuscripts in the form of a book with the writing medium of laklak ^bark^ containing medicines. The contents of the old manuscript entitled ^tambar ni hulit^ contains various kinds of treatment for various diseases that hit humans, like leprosy, poisoned, liver or spleen disease, and eye disease. The treatment of this old manuscript is the local wisdom and happened in the past that contained in the old manuscript was done by utilizing materials available in Indonesian nature. To descibe the contents of old manuscripts containing drugs needs to be done as an alternative to the development of drug production in Indonesia to reduce dependence on imported drugs, which is draining Indonesia^s current state budget. Especially in the Covid-19 era, the Indonesian people are in need of a lot of medicines for anti-body and body immunity. In North Sumatra, the old manuscripts that contain medicines not easy to obtain and many of them are unknown. The purpose of this study is to describe the results of the inventory, description, transliteration, and translation along with the interpretation of the contents of the tambar ni hulit text. The medicinal manuscript of Tambar ni hulit is one of the results of searching for old manuscripts in North Sumatra Region, in various places where manuscripts are stored in museums and libraries, as well as in private collections. Inventory and description will describe the storage of the manuscripts and physical conditions as well as an outline of the contents of the manuscripts. Transliteration and translation will describe the results of the translation of the script of the tambar ni hulit script from the Batak script to the Latin script, and the translation from the Batak language into Indonesian.
Keywords: Tambar Ni Hulit, Medicinal Texts, Local Wisdom
