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| Year : 1990 | Volume
: 36
| Issue : 2 | Page : 91-4 |
Effect of Asparagus racemosus (Shatavari) on gastric emptying time in normal healthy volunteers.
SS Dalvi, PM Nadkarni, KC Gupta
Department of Pharmacology, Seth G. S. Medical College, Bombay, Maharashtra.
Correspondence Address:
S S Dalvi
Department of Pharmacology, Seth G. S. Medical College, Bombay, Maharashtra.
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PMID: 0002097375 
Asparagus racemosus (Shatavari) is used in Ayurveda for dyspepsia (amlapitta) and as a galactogogue. It was hence compared with a modern drug, metoclopramide, which is used in dyspepsia to reduce gastric emptying time. Gastric emptying half- time (GE t1/2) was studied in 8 healthy male volunteers using a cross-over design. The basal GE t1/2 in volunteers was 159.9 +/- 45.9 min (mean +/- SD) which was reduced to 101 +/- 40.8 min by Shatavari (p less than 0.001) and to 85.3 +/- 21.9 by metoclopramide (p less than 0.001). Metoclopramide and Shatavari did not differ significantly in their effects.
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