Abstract:
Adolescent girls who have entered puberty will experience menstruation
or the process of decay of the endometrial tissue with blood. Before menstruation
occurs first the Pre Menstrual Syndrome (PMS) process which is characterized by
headaches, hardened breasts, mood swings (Mood Swing) after the menstrual
process in which menstrual pain occurs or Disminore is a response from the body
due to the release of excess prostaglandin hormone, resulting in increased uterine
contractions resulting in menstrual pain. Disminore travel is estimated as much as
40-50% of adolescent girls experience disminore, the impact that occurs in
adolescent girls become lazy to study until not going to school because of severe
pain. The purpose of this study is to prove the effect of giving turmeric acid to
reduce the level of disminore pain in adolescent girls aged 12-17 years based on
empirical studies in the last five years. The research design used was Study
Literature with the Review method which is 5 Indonesian journals and 5
International Journals taken from several databases namely Google Schoolar,
PubMed, ProQuest, Microsoft Academia, and Scient Direct from 2015 and above.
Most of the results of the analysis test that is P value = 0,000 <α = 0.05 means that
in the study showed the influence of turmeric acid on decreasing the level of pain
in disminore in young women. There is a decrease in pain scale in adolescents
whose pain measurement uses Numeric Rating Scale, it is expected that young
women consume turmeric acid on the first day of menstruation so that it can
prevent the occurrence of excessive dysminorrhea pain that can interfere with the
activities or activities of young women, acid turmeric is effective as a nonpharmacological
and wrong treatment one alternative to reduce the level of
disminore pain in adolescents who experience disminore.
