Buku ini merupakan risalah hasil riset tentang tanaman sirih yang diperoleh dari berbagai sumber. Sirih merupakan tumbuhan yang dimanfaatkan sebagai antiseptik. Dalam buku ini sirih dikupas terkait aspek botani, khasiat keamanan, hingga prospek ekonomi dan pengembangan produk. Diharapkan pembaca memperoleh informasi yang komprehensif mengenai sirih dari hulu ke hilir untuk mendorong budidaya da…
Background: Oral ulceration often becomes the main reason for the patients to see a dentist. Therapy of the oral ulceration is by giving the palliative therapy with topical antiseptic. Nowadays, there are many researches concerning with the traditional medicines as alternative therapy. One of them is Piper betle linn which contains the antiseptic agent. Purpose: This research is aimed to observ…
Abstract: Cubebin is a lignan isolated from Indonesian plant Piper cubeba L.f fruits. Cubebin has been found to strongly inhibit contraction of isolated-trachea of guinea pig induced by histamine or metachoJine. In the present study, the effect of cubebin was investigated on histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells (RPMCs), a connective tissue mast cell. Compound 48/80 (G Protein activa…
The goal of an antiseptic is to elimenate or greatly reduce the member of microorganisms in the surgical field at the time of the surgery. The objective of this study was to verity the effectiveness of 20% Puper betle leaf infusion as antiseptic solution in pre-sugery cataract patients. Aclinical trial with partner-matcheting design was conducted on 31 pairs of eyelids. From each pair of eyeli…