Chloroquine is a drug of choice for malarial disease. Doxyclyne can be used as an alternative drug if the patients have been resistent with common antimalarial drugs. In this study we do a comparative study between doxycycline and chloroquine in treatening malaria. The symptoms in the doxycycline group tend to disappear later than the chloroquine group, but statistically not significant. Plasmo…
Zingiber officinate, Rosc, is a well known plat which can be used for the treatment of various diseases, and has been reported as an effective medicinal plant against Dirofilaria immitis in animal. The volatile oil and the pungent of Zingiber officinate, Rosc. have been effectively used larvae stage 3 (L3) B. malayi in vitro study. This study was designed to investigate the effect of the volati…
We have studied the effect of ketamine induction on ventilation at three regiment premedications. Forty five patients (ASA 1) were allocated randomly into three experimental groups, comparable in age, height and weight, to receive one of the regiment premedication : a combination of 1 mg/kg.bw pethidine + 0.5 mg atropine; 2.5 mg Droperidol + 0.5 atropine or 1 mg/kg. bw pethidine + 2.5 mg Droper…
Alopecia refers to the lack of hair in areas where hair ordinarily found. Many factors influence the pathogenesis of alopecia. The alopecias are usually classified into scarring and nonscarring type. Several reports stated that plum blossom needle gives a satisfactory result in the treatment of alopecia.
Acupressure is one of the traditional Chinese medicine known for a long time, which in the western medicine similar to the pressure on trigger point when somebody is in pain. While pressure on trigger point is only for pain, acupressure is also for neuromoscular cases. Some experiences and researches show that acupressure gives a satisfactory result. Compared to acupuncture, there are only very…
An attemt to determine some parameters of semen and titer of serum testosteron has been carried out. The research was intentionally directed toward fertile men during Ramadhan fasting. The semen and serum samples were taken from 28 healthy volunteers living in Jakarta and nearby area. The semen parameters measured were pH, liquifaction periode, sperm movement velocity, morphology and titer of s…
Malaria is still a major public health problem in Indonesia, and prevalence rate is high in some areas. To control malaria is extremely difficult due to interaction between host-agent and vector. Malaria falciparum parasites have been resistant to chloroquine due to the long and improver use. The alternative drugs such as fansidar and quinine are more toxic and often produce a severe side effec…
An analytical study was conducted of 885 serum speciments from 14 different hospitals in Jakarta, that were submitted to Virology Laboratory at Communicable Disease Research Center, NIHRD, Jakarta, for dengue serology examination using HI test, in 1991. Only paired, acute and convalescence specimens, total of 689, fulfilled the criteria for the analysis. The positivity rate of these paired sera…
Diclofenac sodium is a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID), which is drug of choice for rheumatoid arthritis. It is comercially available as enteric coated tablet and emulgel for topical dosage form. Topical drug was prepared and developed for systemic purposes in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, to reduce the risk of adverse drug reaction given orally. As an oral antirheumatoid dr…