Experimental Evaluation of Antipyretic effect of Homoeopathic Medicine pyrogenium 200, comparison with standard paracetamol, in Baker’s yeast induced Fever in Albino rat Model

Abstract

A group of 18 wistar albino rats were induced with fever by inducing Baker’s yeast intraperitoneally, then group 1 received normal saline and served as control group, group 2 received Paracetamol 100mg/kg for every 4 hours and group 3 received 5drops of freshly prepared Pyrogenium 200 for 4hourly. And temperature of all the rat models were noted every hourly. General blood parameters were analyzed before and after the administration of drug. And Pyrogenium 200 is found to be effective in controlling fever when compared with the standard paracetamol with respect to the mentioned parameters. The study is statistically significant with a p value <0.5.