THE EFFECTIVE RANGE FOR SOME PLANT EXTRACTS ON ACTIVITY PROTOSCOLECES FOR E. GRANULOSUS IN VITRO

Hydatosis is an endemic disease in Iraq and neighboring countries. Its danger is that it cannot be diagnosed in the early stages of infection because the initial symptoms of the disease do not appear until after the hydatid cysts increase in size and put pressure on the tissues adjacent to it, and surgery is still the best available method to get rid of the disease, and since There are some cases in which it is not possible to perform surgical operations because the patient is not qualified for anesthesia or surgery. Therefore, research has directed towards the use of natural substances and compounds extracted from plants that have a healing efficacy. The results indicated that the extracts of Mela azedrach and Capsicum annum in eradicating Protoscoleces. It was also shown that the extract of Capsicum annum fruit was superior to that of Mela azedrach fruit extract, where the concentration of 15 mg/ml caused the kill of Protoscoleces 100% in the two times (60, 40) minutes, and showed that significant differences at the probability level (p<0.01) between all used concentrations and the general average for all exposure times.