Toxicity study of unmadgajakesari rasa [ugk] and its antipsychotic activity in animal models

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Journal name: International Ayurvedic Medical Journal
Original article title: Toxicity study of unmadgajakesari rasa [ugk] and its antipsychotic activity in animal models
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Jyoti Singh
Asmita Wele


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Year: 2016

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Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic, and generally disabling brain and behavior disorder that disrupt normal thoughts, speech, and behavior Unmadgajakesari Rasa [UGK], a potent herbomineral formulation claimed to be useful in Schizophrenia in traditional medicine. Due to lack of scientific evidences of its use in Schizophrenia lead to objective of the present work. After doing the acute toxicity study of UGK, it was evaluated for its antipsychotic activity in 5 HTP induced head twitches model and extra pyramidal adverse effect in catalepsy model in albino mice. For each study animals were divided into 4 groups, each group comprising of 6 animals. Group I- Vehicle Control group ( ghrita ), Group II- Standard Drug Group. In test group UGK was administered in the doses of 7.8 mg and 15.6 mg orally.Acute toxicity study revealed that UGK was nontoxic at 2000 mg/kg dose. It shows statistically significant [p<0.001] antipsychotic activity in 5 HTP induced head twitches model. It does not produce catalepsy [p< 0.001] which is a known adverse effect of antipsychotic drug. Keywords: Schizophrenia, Unmadgajakesari rasa , acute toxicity study,

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