Treatment of Grade II Burns With Cashew Leaf Gel (Anacardium Occidentale L)

Abstract

Burns are wounds touching the object's surface that produce heat (fire, chemicals, electricity, or radiation) or substances that burn in high acids and bases. Cashew leaves (Anacardium occidentale L.) are a plant that contains alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins, and tannins. It potentially becomes a burn wound treatment. The research aimed to determine the effect of administering cashew leaf gel (Anacardium occidentale L.) as an alternative medicine for recovering grade II burns. The type of research employed quantitative experimental with a Post Test Only Control Group Design research design. The object studied was cashew leaf gel (Anacardium occidentale L.) for restorative grade II burns on the back skin of male white mice. There were 27 mice divided into an intervention group by administering cashew fruit gel, positive control with branded ointment, and negative control without treatment. The Shapiro-Wilk normality test data analysis revealed that the data was normally distributed (p>0.05). The   General Linear Model test obtained a significance value of 0.00 (sig. < 0.05), In the intervention group the wound healed on the 15th day, positive control with branded ointment 12th day, negative control without treatment 18th day. It indicated an effect of cashew leaf gel on burns. Post-hoc test presented that the three (3) treatment groups had significant differences in the sig results. < 0.005. It inferred an effect of cashew leaf gel (Anacardium occidentale L) on the restorative of grade II burns.