Abstract:
The aim of this research was to determine the effectiveness of cucumber juice for blood pressure of
the hypertension patient. This was a quasy experiment pre-post without control group research. The
samples of this research were 23 hypertension patients who were taken by using purposive sampling
technique in Sidomulyo Public Health Centre. Data was taken two times;before cucumber juice was
given and after 4 days giving. This research used descriptive analysis and dependent T test.
Descriptive analysis is used to describe the demography charactheristic of samples;age, sex, work,
ethnic, and education. Dependent T test is used to know the influence of cucumber juice for
hypertension patients blood pressure. The result showed that most of the samples were in the end
adult age (60,9%), most of the samples were female (69,9%), Minangese was the majority ethnic of
the samples (43,5%), most of samples were housewife (60,9%), most of the samples were graduate
from senior high school (43,5%), and most of blood pressure of hypertension patient were decrease, it
was 20 people (87%). The result of dependent T test showed that there was a decreasing of
hypertension patients blood pressure average, the decreasing was 11,6 mmHg with standard deviation
10,02. The result of statistic test showed that there was a significant difference of blood pressure
before and after giving the cucumber juice (p value 0,000). Suggestion for hypertension patients is to
consume cucumber juice as a natural healing to decrease blood pressure
