Efektifitas Penusukan Titik Zusanli (ST 36) Dan Taichong (LR 3) Pada Kasus Melasma Ibu Guru SMPN III Colomadu, Karanganyar

Abstract

Abstract: Transfixion Point Zusanli (St 36) and Taichong (Lr 3), Melasma. The effectiveness of Transfixion Point Zusanli (St 36) and Taichong (Lr 3) in the case of Junior High School Teacher Motherland of Melasma III Colomadu, Karanganyar. Melasma is a skin hyperpigmentation disorders face in the form of macula/patch symmetrical hyperpigmentation in the region of the forehead, around the nose, around the mouth, around the eyes, cheeks, and Chin with yellow-brownish or dark brownish to blackish, without subjective complaints of patients. Factors of the incidence of this disorder are ultraviolet radiation, hormone MSH, sex hormone imbalance and the contraceptive pill. Stabbing point Zusanli (ST 36) and Thaichong (Lr 3) can be per peran in the body's hormonal balance. The purpose of this study to the effectiveness of Zusanli and Taichong point stabbing on the case of melasma. the design research of using "One Group Pretest-Postest Design. The technique of data analysis with the Wilcoxon test and using a Purposive sampling technique of Sampling a number of 26 respondents. Wilcoxon Test on against darkness level melasma before and after stabbing point Zusanli and Taichong obtained that the value of significance p = 0.05, 0.014 < is no difference color darkness level melasma before and after stabbing Zusanli and Taichong point, in other words, the use of points Zusanli and Taichong effective for lowering the level of the dark color of the melasma.