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

Table 2

Changes in food consumption of mice following treatment with essential oil of C. martini at 500 mg/kg and 1000 mg/kg b.w.

Treatment	Dose (mg/kg)	Food consumption (gram)
		Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4
Control	10 ml/kg	26.2 ± 0.9	26.5 ± 1.3	25.0 + 1.2	26.4 ± 0.6
CM	500	24.0 ± 1.7	24.2 ± 2.0	23.5 ± 1.4	24.0 ± 1.8
	1000	23.5 ± 2.6	23.0 ± 1.3	23.0 ± 2.3	22.0 ± 2.9
value	—	0.08	0.23	0.17	0.25