Rivai , Harrizul and Wahyuni, Rina and Desni, Yett Rina and Ramdani, Ramdani and Saidah, Fatimah and Asiska, PD and Djamaan, Akmal
(2015)
Preparation and Evaluation of Herbal Tea and Toothpaste of Mulberry Leaves
(Morus alba L.).
Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences, 6
(4).
pp. 1672-1677.
ISSN 0975-8585
Abstract
The objective of this research was to prepare herbal tea and toothpaste of mulberry leaves extract
and evaluate anti-dental plaque activities of their preparations. The herbal material of mulberry leaves was
successfully prepared by collecting, wet sorting, washing, cutting, dry sorting, packaging and storaging the
leaves. Further, the dried mulberry leaves were characterized for macroscopic and microscopic character as
well as physicochemical character. The dried mulberry leaves were treated as chopped, grain powder and fine
powder to make herbal tea. While the dried mulberry leaves were extracted with ethanol to make viscous
extract. The mulberry leaves extract were prepared into toothpaste. The mulberry toothpaste were evaluated
and compared their physicochemical properties and antidental plaque to the existing toothpaste. The herbal
material of mulberry leaves meet the macroscopic and microscopic properties of Materia Medica Indonesia.
The physicochemical properties of dried mulberry leaves were as follow: water content 9.36 0.34 %, total ash
content 11.04 0.91 %, acid insoluble ash content 3.77 0.10 %, water soluble extract 16.25 0.21 % and
ethanol soluble extract 12.45 0.48 %. The herbal tea of mulberry leaves meet the green tea standard. The
extract of mulberry leaves at concentration of 4 % in toothpaste basis has the physicochemical properties as
follow: form soft, smell herbal like, homogeneous, pH 7.80 0.18, spreading power 2.84 0.18 cm2/g, froth
height 1.02 0.77 cm. The antimicrobial activity of this toothpaste was 21.88 1.21 mm of inhibition power
toward dental plaque. The three kind of mulberry tea meet the requirement of green tea. The mulberry leaves
extract toothpaste can be successfully prepared by mixing 1, 2, and 4 % of mulberry extract with basis of
toothpaste. Formula 3 containing 4 % of mulberry extract has a similar inhibition power to Betle Leaves
Extract® and Pepsodent® toothpaste toward dental plaque.
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