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Insomnia is one of the most common sleep-related diseases. In traditional Chinese medicine, Flos daturae has been used as a traditional herbal totreatment of sizens of diseases. The research objective was to investigate the sedative and hypnotic effects of Flos Daturae. Kunming mice were divided into control group, Estazolam (positive drug, 0.0005 g/kg) group and Flos Daturae groups (0.01, 0.02, 0.04g/kg) with random, ig once a day for 7 days. The central sedative effect of flos Daturae on the spontaneous activity of mice was observed using the locomotive activity test, and the hypnotic effect of Flos Daturae was observed in mice using the direct sleep test and the sleep latency with synergistic supra-and sub-threshold doses of pentobarbital sodium. Flos Daturae (0.04g/kg) significantly inhibited mice locomotive activity (P<0.05) and had no direct sleeping effect (P>0.05), increased the number rate of sleep (P<0.05), and significantly shortening sleep latency (P<0.05), enhanced pentobarbital sodium-induced sleep. Flos Daturae possesses have sedative-hypnotic properties.
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