Analysis of Iron (Fe), Copper (Cu), and Zinc (Zn) on Param Traditional Medicine

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL NATURAL RESOURCES (JCNaR)
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): Journal of Chemical Natural Resources

Param is well known traditional medicine for keeping healthy and treating diseases used by Karo Ethnic groups in North Sumatera. Param is a powder made of various nutritious plants and therefore its contents of the heavy metal were determined by using Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES) for qualitative analysis and Atomic Adsorption Spectrophotometry (AAS) for quantitative analysis. The result obtained for the analysis param taken from two samples were 11.814mg/kg and 25.4 mg/kg for Fe, 0.658 mg/kg and 4.536 mg/kg for Cu, and 12.728 mg/kg and 15.184 mg/kg for Zn. Param used as external medicine the content of Fe was 29.36 mg/kg, Cu was 7.368 mg/kg, and Zn was 27.688 mg/kg. The content of all was found in metal, fulfilling the Standart of the Food and Drug Regulatory Agency.