Table 1.

Experimental design.

Group	Number of animals	Intraperitoneal injection (three times/week)	Oral administration (5 mL/kg)	Durations (weeks)
Normal control	6	Sterile distilled water (1 mL/kg)	10% Tween-20	8
Cirrhosis control	6	TAA	10% Tween-20	8
Reference control	6	TAA	Silymarin 50 mg/kg	8
Low dose  B. rotunda	6	TAA	B. rotunda 250 mg/Kg	8
High dose  B. rotunda	6	TAA	B. rotunda 500 mg/kg	8