Open AccessEvaluation of antinociceptive effect of methanolic leaf and root extracts of Clitoria ternatea Linn. in rats
Author(s) -
L. Kamilla,
Surash Ramanathan,
Sreenivasan Sasidharan,
Sharif Mahsufi Mansor
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of pharmacology/the indian journal of pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.286
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1998-3751
pISSN - 0253-7613
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7613.140583
Subject(s) - clitoria ternatea , traditional medicine , biology , chemistry , medicine , pathology , alternative medicine
Clitoria ternatea Linn. (C. ternatea) is an Ayurvedic herb traditionally used as medicine to relieve inflammatory, rheumatism, ear diseases, fever, arthritis, eye ailments, sore throat and body ache. This study aims to evaluate and elucidate the possible mechanism underlying the antinociceptive action of methanolic extracts of C. ternatea leaf and root using several antinociception models.