A REVIEW ON MEDICINAL PLANT WHICH MAY EFFECTIVE IN THE TREATMENT OF ULCER OR WHICH SHOW ANTI ULCER ACTIVITIES

Abstract

Herbal drug are traditional method of treating the disease in worldwide, the plant having ability to treat the diseases also known as medicinal plant. Several types of medicinal plants are existing in the nature and effective in different type of diseases. In this review of medicinal plant we are focusing on the medicinal plant classification and also included about the medicinal plant which has potential to treat peptic ulcer can say the drug having anti ulcer activities. Peptic ulcer is the disease of digestive system which affects the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. The excessive presence of acid and peptic activity in gastric juice plusa gets breakdown in mucosal defenses. NSAIDs and Helicobacter pylori infection these are two major factors that can disrupt the mucosal resistance to injury. The extract of herbal plant or whole plant or and part of plant has numerous therapeutic activities for the treatment of a variety of diseases.The main purposes for the treatment of peptic ulcer are to relive pain, healing of ulcer, and to minimize the reoccurrence of ulcer. About 75% of patients of peptic ulcer disease are due to infected by Helicobacter pylori. This article reviews drugs derived from herbal plant which are more commonly used in the world for treatment of peptic ulcer can say as anti-ulcer activity and having gastro- protective effects.