Figure 1

Photographs showing the gross appearance of the rat stomachs following insult with ethanol/HCl (80%/5%) mixture. In A the rat was pre-dosed with the solvent before insult with ethanol/HCl mixture. In B the rat was pre-dosed with 40 mg/kg body wt pantoprazole before exposure to the ulcerative mixture and in C the rat was predosed with 800 mg/kg body wt of the combined extracts of the 5 plants. Dark areas or spots indicate the ulcerated spots.