Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2013 May 2;147(1):148-56. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2013.02.023. Epub 2013 Feb 28.
Gastrointestinal diseases are common worldwide, including Bangladesh where majority of the rural people depend on water from unprotected sources. The people from Bangladesh use medicinal plants as their first line of health care to cure and prevent different types of gastrointestinal disorders.
To compile plants used for the treatment of different gastrointestinal disorders in Bangladesh.
The field survey was carried out in a period of 18 months. Fieldwork was undertaken in total of eleven districts of Bangladesh. Open-ended and semi structured questionnaire were used to interview a total of 1280 people including traditional healers, Ayurvedic/Unani drug manufacturers and local people.
A total of 250 plant species of 93 families were listed. Leaves were the most cited plant part used against gastrointestinal disorders. Most of the reported species were tree in nature and decoction is the mode of preparation of major portions of the plant species. Most of the plant species were very common and were cultivated or planted in homestead or roadsides. The doses of the plants for different treatments varied widely.
In view of the fact that the plants were selected based on their medicinal usage for treating different kinds of gastrointestinal diseases including diarrhoea, the activities reported here need more works for validation and could be rationalised by the presence of active compounds found in those plants. The documentation represents the preliminary information in need of future phytochemical investigation and is important for the conservation of these plants.
胃肠道疾病在全球范围内很常见，包括孟加拉国，那里的大多数农村居民依赖未受保护的水源。孟加拉国人将药用植物作为他们的第一线医疗保健手段，用于治疗和预防各种胃肠道疾病。
编译用于治疗孟加拉国不同胃肠道疾病的植物。
实地调查在 18 个月的时间内进行。实地工作在孟加拉国的 11 个区进行。采用开放式和半结构化问卷采访了总共 1280 人，包括传统治疗师、印度草医学/顺势疗法药物制造商和当地人。
共列出了 93 科 250 种植物。针对胃肠道疾病，最常引用的植物部分是叶子。报告的大多数物种都是树木，大部分报告的物种都是以汤剂的形式制备的。大多数植物物种非常常见，种植或种植在家庭住宅或路边。不同治疗方法的植物剂量差异很大。
鉴于这些植物是根据其治疗各种胃肠道疾病（包括腹泻）的药用用途选择的，因此这里报告的活动需要更多的验证工作，并可以通过这些植物中发现的活性化合物得到合理化。该文献代表了未来需要进行植物化学研究的初步信息，对于这些植物的保护非常重要。
