Topical Herbal Therapy with Solanum tuberosum L. to Combat Acne
Abstract
Acne is an infectious disease that usually occurs during puberty. Acne can be treated with topical, systemic, hormonal and herbal therapy. Potatoes can be used externally and are useful as anti- acne agents. Data analysis technique used in this study is the null hypothesis testing which was previously carried out normality tests and homogeneity tests as requirements for data analysis. Test the similarity of the two variants using the t-test with a significance level of 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) = 8. The results showed that the acne reduction score (Acne vulgaris) on facial skin using a potato mask with five sample subjects ranged between the first treatment of 18.50 after treatment to 22.25. The results showed that the acne reduction score (Acne vulgaris) on facial skin using a control mask with five sample subjects ranged between the first treatment of 16.00 after treatment to 15.25. The study showed that the sample data from using potato mask and using control mask is usually distributed. The study also showed that the data was homogeneous. The results of the t-test shows that there is an effect of using a potato mask compared to a control mask.
Keywords: topical therapy, Solanum tuberosum L., combat acne
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