PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of pharmacologic agents for the irritable bowel syndrome. DATA SOURCES Electronic literature search of MEDLINE (1966 to 1999), EMBASE (1980 to 1999), PsycINFO (1967 to 1999), and the Cochrane controlled trials registry and a manual search of references from bibliographies of identified articles. STUDY SELECTION Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, p...

Table 1. Symptom – Based Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Pain Predominant Diarrhea Predominant Constipation Predominant Antispasmodic Agents  Dicycloverine (Bentyl)  Mebeverine Tricyclic Antidepressants  Amitriptyline Antidiarrheal Agents  Loperamide (Imodium)  Cholestyramine (questran) Serotonin (5-HT3) antagonist  Alosetron (Lotronex)  Ondansetron (Zofran) Serotonin (5-HT4) Agoni...

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, PhraramIV Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Thailand. Received for publication: June 1, 2009. Reprint request: Gompol Suwanpimolkul, M.D., M.Sc., Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, PhraramIV Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330, Tha...

The anti-diarrheal activity of the alcohol and aqueous extracts of the roots of Dodonaea viscosa (Sapindaceae) was investigated by castor oil induced diarrhea in mice. The parameters of this study were number of diarrheal episodes and mean weight of stool of mice. The percentage protection in extract treated animals showing diarrhea was compared with castor oil treated and loperamide treated an...

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Herbal medicines are playing a vital role in the remedy of numerous diseases. Preliminary phytochemical screening of the methanolic extracts of seeds (MNLS) and peel (MNLP) of Nephelium longan revealed the presence of alkaloids, tannins and flavonoids. For antidairrheal screening, we have followed Castor-oil-induced method whereas to check anti-inflammatory property, we used carrageenan-iduced ...