Therapeutic index, a drug safety parameter, is comparation between the dose at which 50% animals are dead (LD50) and the dose at which 50% animals exhibit the specified effect (ED50). Inflammation was a basic process in various diseases and Dewa leaf {Gynura pseudochina (Lour.) DC} was one of the herbal plants which has been proved as an anti-inflammatory. This study was conducted in order to k…
Background: Tubber roots (Cyperus rotundus Linn.) has long been known as Indonesian original drug for centuries and used widely by the people of Indonesia. However, until now only few research has been done on tuber roots based on its function as a traditional medicine. The essential oils within tubber roots is suspected has potential role for traditional medicine. The purpose of this study is …
A laboratory study to find out the effect of mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni L. jacg) seed extract on blood sugar level of the diabetic male white mice that have been given aloxan. The seed extract was prepared by maceration using 96% ethanol solvent, followed by distillation. The treatments, for negative control group were tween 80 1 %, metformin 65 mg/kg8W, and the seed extract were 70 mg/kgBW, …
Dengue disease is a health problem because the cases increased every year. In 2004 the number of cases are 1023 cases and in 2005 increased to 1853 cases. In 2006 after numerous efforts to eradicate dengue disease with high cost such as fumigation (fogging), conselling and to eradicate mosquito breeding, the number of cas es is still an increase reached 3033 cases. Even in early 2008 an officia…