Pic 1. Usadha Tiwang's Lontar Manuscript That Has Been Transliterated

Name: Ni Made Frida Yanti
University: Udayana University
Traditional Balinese Medicine refers to the traditions, experiences, and skills passed
down by Balinese people, both those that have not been recorded or those who have been literate
in lontar usada or in education or training, and are applied in accordance with the prevailing
norms in Balinese society. Balinese people still believe in the traditional Balinese medicine
system. This is because the Balinese believe that health and illness is a combination of shtula
sarira-suksma sarira-antahkarana sarira, namely the balance between the body (Body), mind
(Mind), and soul (spirit). In addition, there is currently a tendency for people to switch to using
natural ingredients to improve their health and fitness.
This paper tells about traditional Balinese medicine, by taking the focus of the study on
the treatment contained in the Usadha tiwang lontar. The lontar manuscript is in the form of a
lontar script that has been transliterated from Balinese script to Latin script, however, the
mention of lontar is still used according to common habits in the community. The Lontar is
estimated to have existed before 1933. The Lontar was then traced to methods or methods of
treatment for various types of diseases by using means or a mixture of ingredients, mainly in the
form of herbs from plants. The data obtained were analyzed descriptively qualitatively.
Pic 1. Usadha Tiwang's Lontar Manuscript That Has Been Transliterated
Traditional Balinese medicine as written in the lontar usha tiwang mainly discusses
tiwang disease. Tiwang is a disease that has symptoms of the body feeling free, aches and pains,
restlessness, squinting eyes, stiff muscles and even fainting. This type of tiwang is characterized
by the symptoms that appear, such as the northern tiwang having symptoms of restlessness
(meunyang-anyingan), glaring eyes. Tiwang tojos is characterized by symptoms of restlessness
(meunyang-anyingan), glaring eyes, and hands that don't want to stay still (pati grèpè). Tiwang
prawns have symptoms of moving hands and legs like shrimp movements, bulging eyes. In
addition, lontar usadha tiwang mentions other diseases such as cough, mokan, which is a disease
with symptoms of swelling and pain. Diseases or symptoms of illness are treated with medicinal
ingredients made from a mixture of various types of plants or other ingredients such as wine,
lengis tanusan, salt, sugar, lime, and coconut milk, even tain sex and iduh bang. Its use is eaten,
drunk, poured, sprayed, evaporated or rubbed, or affixed. Balinese people still believe in
traditional medicine, that health and illness is a combination of shtula sarira-suksma sarira-
antahkarana sarira, namely the balance between body, mind, and spirit.
The practice of traditional medicine in Bali is generally carried out by entrepreneurs or balian
who have sufficient knowledge about traditional medicine. This knowledge is obtained in
various ways such as; because of derivatives from the previous family, taksu, pica, learning or
nyastra, and others. Thus Balian can be grouped into several groups, namely:
1. Balian Katakson is Balian who gets expertise through taksu. Taksu is a spiritual power
possessed by a person and has influenced that person, both in the way of thinking,
speaking and behaving. The power of Taksu allows one to be able to treat people who are
sick
2. Balian Kapican is a balian who has the ability after obtaining pica. Pica can be a lucky
object. By using the pica, balian has the ability to cure diseases
3. Balian Usada is a balian who has medicinal abilities obtained through learning activities
in medicine, either through waktra teachers, studying at Balian, or self-study through
lontar usada;
4. Mixed Balians are both cataxon Balians and Kapican Balians who study usada
In carrying out treatment, an entrepreneur generally follows treatment procedures including:
1. ngelinggihan taksu, which is asking for power and holy light from the Almighty God.
Because the skills or knowledge possessed by a pengusada comes from God Almighty as
a power that enters the soul, body and mind in the form of Taksu the Pengusada
2. The initiator of sang gering's soul, namely sang gering, worships God Almighty in order
to give strength to the gering and pengsada,
3. Tetengering gering which is the introduction of disease symptoms (diagnosis), and
4. Treatment using drugs. In usadha tiwang, tetengering gering can be seen from the
recognition of disease symptoms, such as the northern tiwang characterized by symptoms
of restlessness (meunyang-anyingan), glaring eyes. Tiwang tojos is characterized by
symptoms of restlessness (meunyang-anyingan), glaring eyes, and hands that don't want
to stay still (pati grèpè). Furthermore, treatment is carried out using various types of herbs
derived from plants and other ingredients. For example, the northern tiwang is treated
with a mixture of Gamongan (Zingiber zerumbet), Triketuka {Kesuna (Allium sativum
L), Jangu (Acorus calamus), Mesui (Cryptocarya massoy (Oken) Kosterm), and tain
sexek. The ingredients are then mashed everything and how to treat it by anointing

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Name: Ni Made Frida Yanti

University: Udayana University

Pic 1. Usadha Tiwang's Lontar Manuscript That Has Been Transliterated

In carrying out treatment, an entrepreneur generally follows treatment procedures including:

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