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Plants have been a source of medicinal products for many years and it provides an enormous reservoir of biologically active compounds with many useful properties, which can cure as well as prevent diseases. Plant-based drugs continue to play an important role in healthcare. So far, many secondary metabolites from plants have proven to be an excellent source of new drugs. Many anti-diarrheal agents have been isolated from different plants. Further attempts are progressing in various laboratories around the world to develop new anti-diarrheal and other drugs from plants. This chapter describes the mechanism of diarrhoea, etiological agents, ethnomedicinal plants with anti-diarrheal action and their molecular targets, ayurvedic concepts of diarrhoea and databases of naturally occurring anti-diarrheal agents. Curcumin, carvacrol, glaucarubin, capsaicin, thymol, gallic acid, eugenol, zingerone, berberine, piperine, geraniol, oleanolic acid and ayurvedic formulations are among the ones discussed.
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Sarath, P., Sukumaran, S.T., Ravindran, R., Sugathan, S. (2020). Plant Metabolites Against Enteropathogens. In: Sukumaran, S.T., Sugathan, S., Abdulhameed, S. (eds) Plant Metabolites: Methods, Applications and Prospects. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5136-9_20
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