Use of Guava leaf extract in treating wounds of african catfish(Clarias gariepinus [manuscript]
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2018
Authors
Chrizhane G. Domingo
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The study focused on the effect of guava leaf extract in treating wounds of African catfish (Clarias gariepinus). The study had 5 treatments, each replicated thrice. The treatments were: Treatment I water (control), Treatment 2 (salt bath), Treatment 3 (53.84% guava crude extract) and treatment 4 (46.66% guava crude extract) and Treatment 5 (41.17% guava crude extract). The experiement has been done in aquaria (1 x 1 x ift). For the guava crude extract preparation, 100 grams guava leaves were boiled in 7 liters of water. The boiled guava leaves was used and placed in the respective aquirium depending on the treatment groups. the wounding of fish was performed in the dorsal musculature on both sides of the fish just above the lateral line. Histological process was done. The experiment lasted for 30 days. The result of the experiment, duration of healing period was found to be shorter (i.e. 10 days post- wounding) and similar between those with salt bath in the treatment 2 and those with guava extracts in the treatments 3 to 5. On the other hand, healing was observed to be relatively longer (i.e. 18 days post- wounding) in control group. From this study it can be concluded the skin wound healing in C. gariepinus was characterized by fast recovery of the wounds by using guava crude extract and salt bath.