Intervensi Gizi dan Ramuan Jamu untuk Diabetes terhadap Kadar Gula Darah Di RRJ Hortus Medicus

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease that lasts a chronic progressive, with symptoms of hyperglycemia, which is caused by impaired insulin secretion, impaired insulin action, or both. The prevalence of diabetic patients in the world and in Indonesia increased from year to year. Management of diabetes mellitus are education, nutritional counseling, exercise and farmacology intervention. Herbs which consist of Sambiloto (Andrographis paniculata), Brotowali (Tinospora crispa), Temulawak (Curcuma xanthorrhiza), kunyit (Curcuma domestica) dan Meniran (Phyllanthus niruri) can decreases blood glucosa level based on pre-clinical and clinical study.  Rumah Riset Jamu (RRJ) "Hortus Medicus" has not done nutritional counseling to patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. This study aims to look at the effect of nutritional counseling and herbs for diabetes to blood glucose levels of diabetic patients in RRJ “Hortus Medicusâ€. This study is preexperimental with the one group pretest and posttest design. Nutritional intervention which consist of nutritional and dietary counseling carried out for approximately 30 minutes when the patient comes first and the blood glucosa levels of patient was examined in the laboratory RRJ. For 28 days, patient must drinking herbs for diabetes. After 28 days later, blood glucose levels and dietary of patient was evaluated. The study was conducted on 35 subjects shown that the nutrition intervention and herbs for diabetes were decreases blood glucosa levels, paired t-test results showed a significant difference blood glucose levels before and after (p value <0.05). Nutritional intervention and herbs for diabetes in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in RRJ Hortus Medicus Tawangmangu able to decrease in blood glucose levels.