Abstract

REVIEW: ANTI-ULCER ACTIVITY CONTAINING INDIGENOUS PLANTS IN INDIA

Sunirmal Bhattacharjee*, Dr. Mrinmoy Basak, Payel Mukherjee and Arindam Chakraborty

ABSTRACT

Nowadays Ulcer is a common and serious gastrointestinal disorder seen in many people. Ulceration occurs due to disturbance of the normal equilibrium of the gastrointestinal tract. Those disturbances can be caused by regular drug usage, irregular food habit, stress, improper livelihood. Basically Peptic ulcer is a broad term including ulcers of digestive tract in the stomach or the duodenum. The formation of peptic ulcer depends on the presence of acid and peptic activity in gastric juice plus a breakdown in mucosal defenses. Number of drugs are introduced for the treatment of the peptic ulcer including Proton pump inhibitor, H2 receptor antagonist etc. But these drugs are prone to relapses, side effects, drug interactions and they are a bit costly too. So there is a need to produce a novel molecule for the treatment. In this search herbal drug can play an important role which offer a better protection and decreased relapses. So in this review we are going to discuss about several medicinal plants having antiulcer activity.

Keywords: Peptic Ulcer, Herbal Drugs, Medicinal Plants, Mucosal Defense, Relapse.