Medicinal plants and herbs contain many important chemical compounds with therapeutic functions and roles. The hawthorn plant is considered one of the most important of these plants because of its effective effect in treating many different diseases because it contains many phenolic compounds and antioxidants., so the current study aims to know the chemical and nutritional properties of the hawthorn leaves and their therapeutic effect on albino rats inflicting with liver disorder. The study was conducted on thirty (30) Male albino rats of the Sprague-Dawley breed weighing 150±10g. rats were fed a basal diet for one week before the study, and they were divided into five groups, each with six rats. As control negative normal rats (C–ve). In the first group, the negative control group, normal rats were fed only the basal diet for 28 days. The remaining rats (n=24) were injected with carbon tetrachloride (Ccl₄). The second group (the positive control group) is a group of infected rats that were injected with carbon tetrachloride and were not fed on the experimental plant. The other three groups are experimental groups that were injected with carbon tetrachloride and each group was fed the basic meal on hawthorn leaves at one of three concentrations (5%, 10%, 15%). The results revealed that group (4) (rats fed on basal diet plus 10% hawthorn leaves) recorded the best treatment for decreasing alkaline phosphatase (ALP), ALT enzymes, and Total protein of hepatic CCl₄ intoxicated rats when compared to (C +ve) group. The study recommends placing hawthorn leaf powder in the meals of patients with liver disorders.
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