The rise of Indonesian consumption behavior in consuming
traditional herbal medicine has not been fully protected with strong consumer legal protection aspects. Article 4 of the Consumer Protection Law (UUPK) determines that consumers have right to comfort, security, and safety in consuming goods and/or services. One of the cases that harm consumers was the case of consumption of vitality herbs "Gali-Gali" which contains Chemicals Substances (BKO) Sildenafil Citrate. In fact, Article 35 letter b of the Regulation of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Number 61 of 2016 concerning Empirical Traditional Health Services determines production of traditional herbs it is prohibited to contain chemicals substances. Sildenafil Citrat is prescription drugs that requires a doctor's prescription and dangerous if consumed by people with heart problems, stroke, and people with blood pressure below 90/50 mmHg. The purpose of this paper is to find out the implementation of the precautionary principle in consumer protection law called caveat emptor and caveat venditor in distrubution of vitality herbs "Gali-Gali". In answering this problem, normative-empirical legal research is carried out that combines empirical and normative approaches. Finally, these two principles must be balanced in order to realize the principle proceed in balance in consumer protection law and in order to achieve Increase awareness, ability, and independence of consumers to protect themselves from the negative excesses of using herbal products containing chemicals substances
