Acute and Subacute Toxicity Study of Essential Oil of Cymbopogon Martini in Mice

Table 1

Changes in body weight of mice after treatment with 500 mg/kg and 1000 mg/kg b.w. of C. martini essential oil.

Treatment	Dose (mg/kg)	Weight (gram)
		Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4
Control	10 ml/kg	29.6 ± 3.4	30.6 ± 3.6	31.3 ± 3.7	32.9 ± 2.1
CM	500	27.2 ± 4.8	28.4 ± 7.6	29.1 ± 6.9	26.8 ± 3.2
CM	1000	28.5 ± 3.5	26.8 ± 3.2	25.8 ± 4.2	24.8 ± 3.2
value		0.07	0.16	0.38	0.59