AB’s C (Averrhoa bilimbi L.’s Candy) as a Stabilizer for Patients with Blood Hypertention

By : Alifah Yuli Nugraeni, Avina Alawya and Mutiara Nur Isnaini (SMAN 1 Yogyakarta) – Gold Medal LPB DIY

The study, titled “AB’s C (Averrhoa bilimbi L.’s Candy) as a stabilizer for patients with blood hypertension”  has the objective to determine the effect of starfruit on mice and to determine the received power of the community about the candy starfruit as lowering blood pressure for patients of hypertension. We picked this topic because many cases of hypertension in Indonesia and the Indonesian people poor lifestyle such as smoking, lack of exercise and likes to eat fast food as a cause of hypertension. Hypertension itself is a disease that handle relatively expensive and difficult. Controlling the hypertension itself takes a long time due to hypertensive disease is a lifelong disease caused by genetic factors and the increasing number of prepared foods that contain lots of fat, and lifestyle changes a person. Therefore, the researchers made starfruit as a natural means of treatment of hypertension. However, due to the shape of the fruit unattractive starfruit, starfruit researchers change into a form of candy which is more favored by the people of all ages and simple.

This research was conducted with experimental methods. Researchers cultivate starfruit into candy ready for consumption and testing this extract (liquid) starfruit on five groups of mice that had been injected the blood pressure elevator drug methylprednisolone with group I as a negative control and group V as positive control. In addition researchers using organoleptic tests to determine the power received public about starfruit candy as lowering blood pressure for patients with hypertension.

From experiments performed on rats approximately 12 days, showed that the best dose of the effectiveness of starfruit milliliter of rat blood pressure reduction was 4 ml liquid starfruit every day for five days. However, this dose triggers high-frequency heart rate so as to obtain a fixed frequency of decreased heart rate and blood pressure also dropped, can be used 2 ml of fluid starfruit plus 2 ml of water / distilled water which is given every day for five days. For the results of organoleptic tests, a number of respondents agreeing candy starfruit type I as lowering blood pressure for patients with hypertension and hope to soon be realized.