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KMID : 0620720030090030177
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Natural Product Sciences
2003 Volume.9 No. 3 p.177 ~ p.179
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Evaluation of Antidiarrhoeal Activity of Aerva species
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J. Joanofarc
C. Vamsadhara
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Abstract
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The genus Aerva is distributed in temperate and tropical Asia and Africa. Aerva species, Aerva lanata and Aerva javanica have been used for antidiarrhoeal activity in Indian traditional medicine. Alanata and A. Javanica were screened separately for their. anti-diarrhoead activity and their action on intestinal transit on their vacuum dried ethanolic and aqueous extracts at the dose of 800 mg/kg by standard methods. All the extracts showed illustrate that the ethanolic and aqueous extracts of A. lanata and the ethanolic and aqueous extracts of Ajavanica have significant antidiarrhoeal activity and the activity may be attributed to its effect on intestinal transit. The present study supports the claim of Aerva alanta and Aerva javanica as antidiarrhoeal drugs in the Indian system of medicine.
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