ABSTRACT

Dwi Putri Octaviani ; THE EFECTIVENESS OF CUCUMBER JUICE AND

ROSELLA POUR TO BLOOD PRESSURE FOR OLD AGE AND
HYPERTENSION SUFFERER (in old age Posyandu working area Pangkur
Puskesmas in Pangkur subdistrict Ngawi Regency)

Old age is a group of age which easy to suffer chronic illness. One kind of
the chronic illness is hypertension. This disease is grouping as the silent disease
because without indication. Hypertension medication can be solve by medical or
pharmacology trough doctor and the other medical worker, also with traditional
way or herbal that is with cucumber juice and rosella pour. The purpose of this
research is to know the difference effectiveness of cucumber juice and rosella
pour to blood pressure for old age hypertension sufferer.
This research used design research Pre-Experimental : static group
comparison design that was done on May 25th – June 07th, 2014. The population
in this research is all of the hypertension sufferer which used pharmacology
therapy beta-blockers in old age Anggrek Posyandu Pangkur Sub district Ngawi
Regency is about 26 person with total sampling technique. Independent variable is
cucumber juice and rosella pour although dependent variable in this research is
blood pressure. Data test and analyze using paired test sample T-test and
independent sample T-test with significant = 0, 05.
The result of statistic test independent T-test p value (0.001 < 0,05) so that
Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted, its mean that there are difference effectiveness
of cucumber juice and rosella pour
So that the society must to know more about the effectiveness from herbal
medical of cucumber juice because the water content is diuretic stance and content
in rosella pour is antosianin and flavonoid compound that used to reduce blood
pressure.

Key word : Cucumber juice, rosella pour, blood pressure, hypertension.

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