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Background: Obesity, a global epidemic, is a major risk factor for diabetes mellitus and cardio vascular diseases. Despite advances, the pharmacotherapy for obesity remains limited. Almost all medications for long term management of obesity have health issues. Due to the adverse drug reactions (ADRs) associated with many antiobesity medicines, the clinical trials are focussing on screening herbal medicines for use in the treatment of obesity, which have minimal ADRs.Methods: Rats were divided into eight groups of six each. The rats were first made obese by feeding high fat diet (HFD) for three weeks. Then treatment with the herbal extracts was given simultaneously with the HFD to the experimental groups. Rats were fed HFD for six weeks along with herbal extracts and the effect on their liver function test and kidney function test were evaluated.Results: The rats fed HFD and supplemented with herbal preparations of Triphala and G. cambogia for six weeks, showed significant improvement in liver function test and kidney function test related parameters as compared to the control group rats fed with HFD alone.Conclusions: Triphala and G. cambogia can counter the effects of HFD intake and have the potential for use as anti-obesity agents with desirable liver function test and kidney function test related parameters modulating properties.
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Union Total is herbal formulation made in the form of capsule which contains two standardized plant extracts Cissus quadrangularis (CQ) and Withania somnifera (WS). The present work describes development and validation of High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic method for simultaneous analysis of Stigmasterol (STG) in Cissus quadrangularis (CQ) and Withaferin A (WFA) in Withania somnifera (WS). Stigmasterol and Withaferin A were identified on silica G60 F254 HPTLC plates by post derivatization technique and robustness study was performed by applying a central composite design (CCD) with k factor having 2k factorial runs, 2k axial experiments and five center points. In HPTLC good separation was obtained with chloroform: methanol: toluene: formic acid (6.5: 0.5: 3: 0.25 v/v/v/v) as mobile phase and anisaldehyde sulphuric acid as a derivatizing reagent at detection wavelength 530 nm. Linearity was obtained in the concentration range of 100-200 ng/band for WFA and 200-700 ng/band for STG and the % recoveries were found in the range of 100.06 % to 100.46 % for WFA and 99.97 % to 100.94 % for STG respectively. HPTLC method was found to be sensitive, precise, accurate and reproducible, which would be of use in quality control of these tablets.