**8.6 Antipyretic activity**

Antipyretic function in human is to lower down the body temperature. This is required only when there is fever or illness. Allopathic medicines can do that, but it has side effects, whereas *A. marmelos* plant part extracts can do the same thing without any side effects [107]. This advantage of *A. marmelos* provides a good health and lowers the expense of medicines. It has been observed in the experiment with albino rats that the temperature is decreased after applying ethanolic extract of *A. marmelos* with a dose of 200 and 400 mg per kilogram of the body weight. The body temperature reducing action of the ethanolic *A. marmelos* extract is comparable with paracetamol at a dose of 100 mg per kg of the body weight [19, 108]. Phytochemical compounds such as acetone, petroleum ether, ethanol, chloroform, diethyl ether are responsible for the antipyretic actions, and paracetamol equivalence is majorly due to the chloroform and methanol extract of *A. marmelos* [109].
