Pendampingan pemanfaatan tanaman herbal pada pasien hipertensi dan diabetes melitus sebagai upaya pencegahan penyakit gagal ginjal di Puskesmas Gandus Palembang

Lusiana, Evi
Kurniati, Ardesy Melizah
Harahap, Debby Handayati
Tamzil, Nia Savitri
Parisa, Nita
Adenina, Masayu Syarinta
Rosdah, Ayesha Augusta
Oktariana, Desi
Pariyana, Pariyana
Azizah, Aida Nur
Islami, Arya Putera

Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat: Humanity and Medicine
Vol 5 No 1 (2024): Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat: Humanity and Medicine

Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are risk factors for chronic kidney disease. A person diagnosed with hypertension and diabetes mellitus is required to regularly take medication for life, which can lead to side effects of drugs (ESO). This triggers the search for more effective and safer drugs, so many people start to turn to traditional medicine. The main objective of this community service is to increase community knowledge and skills through assistance in cultivating herbal plants such as Sambiloto, Celery, and Ginger. The method of service carried out in this activity is by giving questionnaires before and after the delivery of material with the community in the working area of the Gandus Palembang Health Center. The targets of community service activities are hypertension and diabetes mellitus patients and the community registered in the working area of the Gandus Palembang Health Center as many as 30 participants. The results of the counseling showed that there was an increase in the results of participants who fell into the good category, according to the variables of knowledge, attitude and action respectively 56.7%, 23.3% and 40%.