Effect of a homeopatic complex on the behavior of mice under acute stress

Abstract

This experiment intended to evaluate the effect of homeopathic commercial complex (Convert H®) on the performance and behavior of mice (Mus musculus) submitted to acute stres. The agent stressor employee was the immobilization of the animals for 60 minutes in mini pipes of PVC immediately before the start of the behavioral evidence. The behavioral assessments, involved aspects associated with anxiety and mobility in evidence in the elevated plus-maze test, the spontaneous mobility in the open-field test and the aggressiveness in the resident-intruder paradigm. It was not identified interaction between the stresses caused acute and complex homeopathic on behavioral variables observed in the elevated plus-maze test and the open-field test. The used complex had an anxiogenic effect on animals not submitted to the stressing agent, however, in animals submitted to stress the anxiogenic effect of the complex was not the expected. The two groups that received homeopathy showed decreased motor activity, it is not possible to prove in this paper the response expected about reduction of the negative effects of stress on this behavior.