Antidiarrhoeal Activity of Aerva lanata in Experimentally Induced Diarrhoea in Rats

摘要: Aerva Lanata belongs to family Borogenaseae has been widely used in Indian folk medicine for treatment of urinary disorder, boils, cephalalgia, cough, strangury and lithiasis. This study was undertaken evaluate the antidiarrhoeal effect alcoholic extract lanata by using different experimental models. It found that both doses showed significant protection against PGE2 induced enteropooling, which might be due inhibition synthesis prostaglandins is responsible diarrhoea. Antidiarrhoeal accessed castor oil diarrhoea, charcoal meal test Loperamide (2 mg/kg) atropine (0.1mg/kg) were as standard drugs. Alcoholic 400 800 mg/kg dose p.o.