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ABSTRACT
Public health center (Puskesmas) is one of the most important public health service
facilities in Indonesia. Puskesmas is a district / city official technical implementing unit that is
responsible for carrying out health development in a work area. Today traditional medicine is
generally in great demand by the public. Even though they have received various forms of
conventional medicine at the hospital, it is not uncommon for people who have gone to
conventional medicine to go back to traditional medicine. So based on the phenomena that occur,
researchers are interested in conducting research on Counseling of Traditional Medicine Based
on Hinduism at Puskesmas 1 Denpasar Utara.
The problems examined in this research were: (1) What types of therapy were
socialized to the people who were treated at Puskesmas 1 Denpasar Utara (2) Factors that
hindered the counseling of traditional medicine based on Hinduism at Puskesmas 1 Denpasar
Utara (3) How overcoming obstacles in the counseling of traditional medicine based on
Hinduism at Puskesmas 1 Denpasar Utara. Data collection methods used in this research are
observation, interview, literature study, documentation, and data analysis techniques.
The results showed that the types of traditional therapies that were socialized at
Puskesmas 1 Denpasar Utara included: yoga, acupressure, herbal medicine (usadha taru
pramana) and diet ahara sattvika. The inhibiting factor for the counseling of traditional health
based on Hinduism at Puskesmas 1 Denpasar Utara is the lack of extension agents, the lack of
traditional health material based on Hinduism, a heterogeneous patient/peoples factor. Efforts to
overcome obstacles in the counseling of traditional health based on Hinduism at Puskesmas 1
Denpasar Utara, namely by empowering apprenticeship students in Puskesmas and collaborating
with traditional health based Hinduism, conducting material training to health extension workers
in Puskesmas regarding traditional Hindu-based medicine, and integrating traditional health
education materials based on Hinduism with general-based traditional medicine material
(Nusantara culture) to be more easily understood by patients/peoples with different beliefs.
Key words: Traditional health based on Hinduism, Puskesmas 1 Denpasar Utara.