Journal of Harmonized Research in Pharmacy

PHARMACOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF PLUMBAGO ZEYLANCIA LEAF EXTRACTS FOR ANXIOLYTIC ACTIVITY BY USING OPEN FIELD TEST

Abstract

Author(s): N. Naga Amrutha*, T. Hemalatha, M.V. Anjali, D. Eswar Tony, Rama Rao Nadendla

Treatment for various problems through herbal medicines is a traditional system being practiced for thousands of years. As all can obey the practice due to fewer side effects, considerable research o n pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, pharmacology and clinical therapeutics has been carried out tremendously. Coming to the current research, on anti-anxiety or anxiolytic activity, most of the people in now a day have got feared in the present society due to many circumstances like stress, inferiority, backward in the hype areas in their own field. For this our basic research started with safe herbal extracts by using mice as experimental animals which are exposed on open field apparatus for evaluating anxiolytic activity. The current research got a good response as this procedure was very easy and fast for the evaluation.