DIURETIC ACTIVITY OF BUTEA MONOSPERMA FLOWERS EXTRACT
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Pharmacy (IRJP) - Year 2013, Vol 4, Issue 9
Abstract
Kidney, as excretory organ of our body serves important function of excretion of waste products, regulation of fluid volume and electrolyte content etc. Damage to kidney can lead to severe life threatening complications. Diuretics are drugs capable of increasing levels of urine. Aqueous and alcoholic extracts of Butea monosperma flowers were tested for diuretic activity in rats. The parameters studied on individual rat were body weight before and after test period, total urine volume urine concentration of Na+, K+ and Cl-. In the present study alcoholic and aqueous extracts of was investigated. Butea monosperma flowers (100 mg/kg of body weight) showed increase in urine volume, cation and anion excretion. Furosemide was used as reference diuretic.
Authors and Affiliations
Anurag Kumar , Niranjan Sutar , Uma Sharma , Sailesh Kumar , Namrata Singh
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