Relationships For The Utilization Of Pasak Bumi Plants (eurycoma longifolia Jack.) As A Traditional Medicine And Its Bioactivity

Abstract

Pasak bumi (Eurycoma longifolia Jack.) is a species belonging Simarobuaceae hasbeen long used as traditional medicine, which known very well as aphrosidiac. Thestudies have been conducted to reveal the benefits of E. longifolia throughethnobotany, phyto- chemical, and bioessay approaches, but the review articles on theits utilization and bioactivity limited. This article is based on scien- tific articlespublished on line or off line, then synthesized so that to be information the relationshipbetween use and bioactivity. Ethno- botanyof E. longifolia have been used as amedicine for fever, ma- laria, improve stamina, diabetic, cancer, aphrodisiac, erectiledys- function. Bioactivity of E. longifolia is antiosteoporotic, antimicro- bial,aphrodisiac, anticancer, angiogenesis, and hepatoprotective. Eurycomanone issecondary metabolites in E, longifolia has activi- ty as an antimalaria, antipyretic,aphrodisiac, and cytotoxic. The quassinoids, coumarin and glycosides of El haveactivity increase the production, quality, totality, synthesis and release of spermato-zoa. Eurycoma longifolia is very potential to be developed as an antiosteoporotic andaprosidiac drug, but until now most of it is harvested directly from the forest, so topreserve it, we need to study the cultivation method.