A study of analgesic effect of medicinal plant Ficus heterophylla in Swiss albino mice

Ficus heterophyllus are readily available and used in Bangladesh without the required regulation or inspection. Eastern Asia, comprising southern China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia, is the original home of the Ficus heterophylla Linn tree. It grows in tropical and subtropical areas of India and is utilized in traditional medicine for a number of different things. It is a member of the Moraceae family and typically grows as a shrub up to 3 metres tall. It is often being occurred in open places, particularly flood-margins of rivers. To demonstrate the claimed therapeutic effect for this plant we conducted pharmacological studies. By conducting three studies, we found that it has significant analgesic and other therapeutic effects. Analgesic study with hot plate, formalin and Acetic acid induced pain test, Ficus heterophyllus showed very highly significant, no significant and moderate significant analgesic effect in different dose respectively.