The Effect of Peganum Harmala (Water Extract) on Hydatid Cyst

Abstract

Hydatid disease is considered as one of the important zoonotic diseases, due to the complications and the difficulties of the diagnosis and treatment. Although there is significant progress in the treatment of this disease, the difficulties of using drugs due to there toxicity and the side effect of the application are still amatter of discussion. Therefore, lots of the researchers are starting thinking about the alternative procedure of the treatment before going to the surgery. Accordingly, plant extract (Peganum harmala extract) was considered to be one of the alternative procedures , because of their availability and it is usually known plant without side effect and it is poblicaly used for the treatment of different diseases. Therefore it has been decided in this work to apply the seeds extract of this plant in the experimental treaetment of the hydatide disease in vitro and in vivo on experimental animals. The results of this work reveald significant efficacy of these extracts on the activity of protoscolices and also the reduction of numbers of Hydatide cysts in the experimental animals