To evaluate ability of hepatic functional recovery of preparation from combretum quadrangulare kurz through models of CCl4 induced hepatic intoxication

ABSTRACT

Combretum species (combretaceae) are widely used as folk medicine for the treatment of hepatitis, malaria, respiratory infection and even cancer in different parts of Asia and Africa. Claimed efficacies in Thai traditional textbooks are as follows that the leaves of Combretum quadrangulare Kurz was have been used as a treatment of wounds. In this study, we researched the action of Tram bau on hepatotoxicity. The centrilobular localization of CCl4 induced hepatic necrosis. The results showed that Trambau decoction with dosage 0,2 ml recovered the hepatic injury.