Open AccessANTI-DIABETIC ACTIVITY
Author(s) -
Muhammad Faisal,
Usman Nawaz,
Abdul Matin Khan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2018.25.04.336
Subject(s) - medicine , cassia , body weight , zoology , traditional medicine , diabetes mellitus , endocrinology , biology , alternative medicine , pathology , traditional chinese medicine
Objectives: The study was designed to evaluate the hypoglycaemic effects ofCassia sophera’s powdered seeds and its different fractions. Study Design: An experimentalstudy. Setting: Faculty of Veterinary, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Period:November 2014 to February 2017. Methodology: Initial experiments were designed to find outthe hypoglycaemic effects of Cassia sophera powdered seeds in increasing doses i.e. 2, 3, 4g/kg body weight at 0, 2, 4, 8, 12 and 24 hours intervals. The effects of methanolic and aqueousextracts equivalent to 4g/kg body weight of Cassia sophera seeds were also studied in bothnormal and diabetic rabbits. Results: At 4 hours interval, 2grams/kg body weight of grindedseeds results no significant decrease in mean blood level of glucose. At 8 and 12 hours intervals,a significant decrease while at 4, 8 and 12 hours a highly significant reduction were observedwith both 3g/kg and 4g/kg body weight. With methanolic and aqueous extracts equivalent to4g/kg body weight, normal rabbits showed significant decrease i.e. with P value less than 0.05at 8 and 12 hours. In addition, the methanolic extract of Cassia sophera seeds produced betterhypoglycaemia as compared to aqueous extract. The effects of these extracts were comparableto Acetohexamide. The same study was also done in alloxan-induced diabetic rabbits and it wasnoticed that Cassia sophera powdered seeds caused significant decrease in blood glucoselevel at increasing doses 2, 3 and 4gram/kg of body weight and highly significant reduction(with P value less than 0.001) in blood level of glucose was noticed with methanolic extracts at4 hours interval which continued upto 8 hours while treatment with aqueous extract with Cassiasophera seeds showed highly significant decrease at 12 hours. Conclusion: It is concludedthat powdered seeds of Cassia sophera constitutes more than one type of hypoglycaemicelements, which have exerted a significant and consistent hypoglycaemic effects in normal andalloxan treated diabetic rabbits.