Antioxidant Potential of a Polyherbal Antimalarial as an Indicator of Its Therapeutic Value

Table 2

Effect of Nefang on selected physiologic parameters.

Physiologic parameters	Group A; (corn oil)	Group B; ( CCl4)	Group C; (CCl4 + 100 mg/kg Nefang)	Group D; (CCl4 + 500 mg/kg Nefang)
Food intake (g)	125.92 ± 16.64	85.69 ± 30.04*	93.53 ± 33.39*	94.30 ± 29.11*
H2O intake (mL)	88.76 ± 20.1	47.69 ± 27.43*	49.61 ± 24.95*	51.46 ± 26.81*
Relative weight of Heart (g)	0.33 ± 0.19	0.33 ± 0.19	0.29 ± 0.02	0.32 ± 0.03
Relative weight of liver (g)	3.36 ± 0.39	4.78 ± 0.49*	4.37 ± 0.25*	4.02 ± 0.3
Relative weight of kidneys (g)	0.34 ± 0.01	0.36 ± 0.01	0.36 ± 0.01	0.39 ± 0.01

Results presented as mean ± SD; 𝑛=5; significant difference: *𝑃<0.05, **𝑃<0.01.