PEMANFAATAN DAUN MINT SEBAGAI UPAYA PENURUNAN EMESIS GRAVIDARUM

Although complaints of nausea, vomiting are considered normal for pregnant women and do not harm the fetus in womb. However, if frequency nausea is excessive, you still have to watch out it. Nausea followed by severe can be a sign disturbance pregnancy often occurs pregnancy, around 60% - 70% experience vomiting, especially first trimester. The aim this research was find effectiveness using mint leaves as an effort reduce emesis gravidarum. This method uses quantitative methods with pre-experiments one group pretest-posttest design. population trimester who experienced gravidarum at Rejosari Pekanbaru Health Center sample size 31 respondents sampling technique purposive sampling. Based on univariate results, it found that distribution before administration showed most degree 2 total 26 (83.9%) respondents. Bivariate analysis used Parametric Test Dependent T (Paired Test) average 7.10 times standard deviation 2.103 times. At after leaves, 4.26 1.527 It seen mean difference giving 2.84 0.576 statistical test results obtained value 0.000, so concluded there significant between leaves.