DIURETIC ACTIVITY OF ANANAS COMOSUS EXTRACT BY USING WISTAR RATS
B. Sudheer Chowdary*, A. Sai Gayathri and P. Pavana Ramya Sudha, B. Tejaswini, S. Deepthi, A. Teja Srinivas, T.E.G.K. Murthy
ABSTRACT
Ananas comosus are commonly known as the pine apple belongs to the family Bromeliaceae. It is the most edible fruit having various pharmacological properties mainly the antioxidant properties. This study is to evaluate the diuretic activity of the phenolic and flavonoid compounds that can be used in treating the various ailments to remove the excess of fluid from the body, hypertension, kidney failure cases. Quantitative analysis is done to identified the content of phenolic and flavonoid compounds in the ethanolic extract. The content was estimated in the extract and evaluated the diuretic activity by using the Lipschitz test. The extract of 500 mg/kg shows the significance therapeutic effect when compared with the control groups. Thus we can concluded that the ethanolic extract was having the significant diuretic effect that can be used for various ailments.
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