TOXIC AND ALLERGIC EFFECTS OF ARTEMISIA LERCHIANA INFUSION AND ESSENTIAL OIL ON THE BODY OF LABORATORY ANIMALS

Abstract

As a result of therapeutic and preventive research, in practice with a long history, the need for the use of medicinal plants in medicine and veterinary medicine has acquired an accurate scientific basis. A share of up to 40% of the drugs used in practice medicinal plants are common in many regions of the world. Phytopreparations made from medicinal plants have their own characteristics: the gradual, slow development of the therapeutic effect, the harmless effect on the body, the absence of adverse reactions, even with prolonged use, heal not only individual symptoms of the disease, but the entire organism as a whole by mobilizing various protective forces. As a research material, an infusion prepared from the dried form of the Artemisia lerchiana plant, collected from the region of the West Kazakhstan region, and an essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation were used. The toxic and allergic effect of Artemisia lerchiana infusion and essential oil on the body of laboratory animals (white mice, rabbits) was studied. As a result of the study, a sample prepared in two dosage forms (infusion and essential oil) to study the toxic and allergic effects of Artemisia lerchiana did not have a negative effect on the body of laboratory animals, mortality and normal changes in internal organs and tissues showed that Artemisia lerchiana infusion and essential oil are harmless to the body.