Acute and Subacute Toxicological Evaluation of the Aerial Extract of Monsonia angustifolia E. Mey. ex. A. Rich in Wistar Rats

Table 1

Body weight changes of the animals following single oral dose administration of 5000 mg/kg body weight of Monsonia angustifolia extract.

Groups	Weekly weight changes (g)			% weight gain
	Day 0	Day 7	Day 14
Control (distilled water)	226.08 ± 1.89	237.10 ± 1.39	243.48 ± 1.16	7.15
Extract (5000 mg/kg)	231.24 ± 1.45	245.32 ± 1.11	248.55 ± 1.43	6.97

Values are means ± SEM (). Test values not sharing a superscript are nonsignificantly different from the control ().