Abstract :
In the wild there are many fungi that are pathogenic to humans and
animals. One of the pathogenic fungus that can cause disease for humans is
Candida albicans. Candida albicans can occurs a candidiasis diseases that can
attack mouth, vagina and skin. Efforts to treat candidiasis disease often use
synthetic antifungal drugs. However, these synthetic drugs can cause side effects
and can even cause pathogenic microbial resistance.
Indonesia is a rich country which has so many plants that have potential as
traditional medicine. These plants contain active compounds of secondary
metabolites that have antifungal characteristic. This study of literature aims to
review the potential of Indonesia's natural ingredients as a natural antifungal in
inhibiting the growth of Candida albicans and also to know the response of
growth inhibition in fungi which is observed from the formation of inhibited zone.
This research is based on a literature that use the secondary data taken from
scientific journals, theses and scientific writing. Descriptive analysis method used
as the technique to arrange the data.
Result of the research from seven scientific journals found that gelinggang
leaves, mangosteen?s peel, senggani leaves, bee pollen, langsat?s fruit seed,
srikaya?s fruit and sembung rambat leaves could inhibit the growth of Candida
albicans and also contained secondary metabolite compounds such as alkaloids,
flavonoids, terpenoids, steroids, saponins, tannin, squamosin, asymycin,
atherospermidine, lanuginosum, annonain, reticulin and glikosides that have
antifungal characteristic. Based on the response of growth inhibition in fungi,
found some varied results obtained from the antifungal potential of middle to
strong antifungal potential.
It can be concluded that seven Indonesian?s natural ingredients which
identified from this study of literature have sensitivity to Candida albicans with
certain concentrations so it?s potentially can be used as natural antifungal and
among all identified natural ingredients, senggani leaves with a concentration of
20% were the most effective in inhibiting the growth of Candida albicans