Acute and Subchronic Toxicity Profile of a Polyherbal Drug Used in Sri Lankan Traditional Medicine

Table 5

Effect of the polyherbal drug on consumption of food in healthy rats at weekly intervals.

Treatment	Average consumption of food (g/day)
	1^st weak	2^nd weak	3^rd weak	4^th weak
Healthy control rats	22.00 ± 0.59	22.33 ± 0.81	20.50 ± 1.04	20.16 ± 0.93
Hot water extract (1.0 g/kg)	22.50 ± 1.24	22.00 ± 1.52	20.83 ± 0.62	20.33 ± 0.81
Water : acetone extract (0.5 g/kg)	21.66 ± 0.48	22.66 ± 1.02	20.00 ± 1.71	20.66 ± 1.09
Water : acetone extract (0.5 g/kg)	21.33 ± 0.71	20.50 ± 0.34	19.66 ± 0.61	19.91 ± 0.92
Water : acetone extract (1.5 g/kg)	20.83 ± 0.90	20.33 ± 1.69	19.75 ± 1.24	19.58 ± 0.53

Each data point is expressed as mean ± SEM (n = 6/group). Results are significant compared to the control group at  < 0.05.