October 2018
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This is an Open Access Journal / article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. All rights reserved. The current study is an trial to search the diuretic effect of Ethanolic extracts of the plants Apium graveolens (Ag) and Petroselinum crispum (Pc) , with furosemide as a standard and normal saline as control in male rats at a single dose of (200) mg/Kg, b.w. orally for each extract. The urine volume (in mL) measured at (6) hours and urinary electrolyte excretion. The urine volume and urinary electrolyte excretion (Na+ , K+ and Cl-) were found to be significantly higer in rats treated with (Pc) extracts than in (Ag) extracts as compare to normal rats. This current study suggest that Ethanolic extract of (Pc) and (Ag) possess diuretic activity .