| evaluation of five medicinal plants used in diarrhoea treatment in nigeria. | five medicinal plants [acacia nilotica, acanthospermun hispidum, gmelina arborea, parkia biglobosa and vitex doniana] used in diarrhoeal treatment in kaduna state, nigeria, were investigated. this study was carried out on perfused isolated rabbit jejunum and castor oil-induced diarrhoea in mice. the aqueous methanol extracts (0.5, 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 mg/ml) were generally found to cause a dose-dependent response in the isolated rabbit jejunum, though this was not uniform in all the plants. gmelina ... | 2005 | 15908152 |