Table 5. Mental alertness on rising (% of pts.).

	Ashwagandha (n = 39)		Placebo (n = 19)		Mann-Whitney ‘U’ test
	No.	%	No.	%	2	p
Baseline
Alert	4	10.3%	4	21.1%	0.019	0.890
Slightly Drowsy	23	59.0%	8	42.1%
Extremely Drowsy	12	30.8%	7	36.8%
5 weeks
Alert	25	64.1%	10	52.6%	0.910	0.340
Slightly Drowsy	11	28.2%	6	31.6%
Extremely Drowsy	3	7.7%	3	15.8%
10 weeks
Alert	27	69.2%	10	52.6%	1.839	0.175
Slightly Drowsy	11	28.2%	7	36.8%
Extremely Drowsy	1	2.6%	2	10.5%