Pain is an unpleasant feeling things that are perceived by osteoarthritis patients. Now to overcome the pain<br />pharmacological treatment alone is not enough, sh ouldalso be granted non- pharmacological treatment with<br />herbal treatment, ginger contains anti - inflammatory and anti–inflammatory which proven to reduce pain.<br />The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of warm compresses decoction of ginger todecrease<br />the pain of osteoarthritis. The types of research used approach one group pra-post test design. The sample<br />studied is 19 people with technique sampling rendom sampling with the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The<br />independent variable is warm compresses decoction of ginger, while the dependent variable is the pain of<br />osteoarthritis with parameters ginger is boiled and used as a compress as well as facial expressions and<br />ranges pain to determine pain intensity,with ordinal scale will be used wilcoxon test to determine the effect of<br />the experiment with criteria painless (0), mild pain (1-3),moderate pain (4-6), severe pain (7-9) and very<br />severe pain ( 10 ). Collecting data using instruments vas with a range of 1-10 who have tested the validity<br />and reliabelitasnya then the data collected in the edit coding assessed the score later in the tabulation . The<br />results showed before to warm ginger decoction obtained 4 mild pain (21%), pain was 12 people (63.2%), 3<br />severe pain (15.8%) After compresses a change of 60%. The increase in painless 2 (10.5 %) , mild pain 7<br />people (36.8%) , pain was 9 people (47.4%), severe pain one person (5.3%). Based on statistical test<br />Wilcoxon p-value of 0,000 (&lt;0.05), which means H1 accepted. The conclusions of research there is effect of<br />warm compresses decoction of ginger to decrease the pain of osteoarthritis.