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Journal of Medicinal Plants Research Vol. 5(11), pp. 2430-2434, 4 June, 2011Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/JMPRISSN 1996-0875 2011 Academic Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Comparative study between Hepotin (herbalformulation) and Interferon alpha 2b and Ribavirin in

the treatment of Hepatitis C

Asif Iqbal1, Syed Muhammad Ali Shah2*, Muhammad Asif2, Muhammad Akram1andKhan Usmanghani1

1Faculty of Eastern Medicine, Hamdard University Karachi, Pakistan.

2College of Conventional Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy and Alternative Medicine, Islamia University of Bahawalpur,

Pakistan.

Accepted 6 April, 2011

To study the therapeutic effect of herbal medicine in comparison with allopathic medicine formanagement of Hepatitis C. Two hundred patients with Hepatitis C were randomly assigned into twogroups, 100 in each group. Test group was treated with herbal medicine, Hepotin and control group wastreated with allopathic medicine; Interferon alpha2b+Ribavirin. Comparison of data recorded byphysician relating to these variables showed significant difference between test and control groups (p