@article{MAKHILLJAVA20054128,
    title = {Sedative and Anticonvulsant Properties of the Decoction 
of Balanites aegyptiaca (Balanitaceae)},
    journal = {Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances},
    volume = {4},
    number = {1},
    pages = {34-38},
    year = {2005},
    issn = {1680-5593},
    doi = {javaa.2005.34.38},
    url = {https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?issn=1680-5593&doi=javaa.2005.34.38},
    author = {Elisabeth Ngo Bum,Neteydji Sidiki,Taiwe,Paul Fasutin Seke Etet,Frededic Maidawa,Silvere Vincent Rakotonirina and},
    keywords = {},
    abstract = {The decoction of Balanites aegyptiaca, a plant used in traditional medicine in Africa for many diseases, possesses anticonvulsant and sedative activity in mice. This decoction protected mice against strychnine- and pentylenetetrazol-induced seizures. But Balanites aegyptiaca decoction had no effect against picrotoxin-induced seizures. In the other side, the decoction of Balanites aegyptiaca potentiated sleep-induced by diazepam. The total sleep time of the control group was multiply by 4 in the presence of the decoction at a dose of 1000 mg /kg (from 12 to 59 min). With these effects, the decoction of Balanites aegyptiaca L. seem to posses sedative and anticonvulsant properties that might explain its use as a traditional medicine for epilepsy in Africa.}
    }