Antiulcer Properties of Herbal Drugs: A Review

Herbal medicines are very important to cure the various ailments of human. Demands of the herbal medicines are increasing in both developed and under developed countries due to growing recognition of natural plants being lesser of side effect, easily available in surrounding place with low coast. Peptic ulcer disease is one of the common gastrointestinal disorders in clinical practice. The common forms of peptic ulcer are duodenal ulcer, gastric ulcer, NSAIDs induced ulcer and stress ulcer. Gastric ulcers occur commonly at old age and lower socio-economic class of individuals. Many synthetic drugs are used for the treatment of peptic ulcers but cause various adverse effects. Hence herbal medicines stand out as being exceptional for its ethnic, ethno botanical and ethno pharmacological use. In this review attempts have been made to know the antiulcer drug of natural origin with their suggested medicinal part, screening methodology and type of extract used for evaluation and investigation to prove its use. The objective of present review is to compile literature and the antiulcer properties of the most commonly employed herbal medicines.