Fybogel Hi-Fibre Orange Natural Drink Mix This orange-flavoured powder contains 3.5g of fibrous
ispaghula husk.
The locally sourced material--all 305 metres (1,000 feet) of it--was treated in a solution made from the dried seeds of
ispaghula, or psyllium, to stop the ink from spreading.
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Ispaghula (Plantago ovata) seed husk," Carbohydrate Polymers, vol.
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ispaghula husk on bowel habit," Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, vol.
Comparison of the effects of
ispaghula and wheat bran on rat caecal and colonic fermentation.
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ispaghula seeds as drug carriers, Carbohydr.
Plantago ovata husk or
ispaghula husk (the husk of the seeds of Plantago ovata) is a dietary fiber that induces a mixture of neutral and acid polysaccharides with a rest of galacturonic acid.
Bulk-forming laxatives, such as psyllium (also called
ispaghula), increase stool bulk, distend the colon, and stimulate peristalsis.
Similarly, the antidiarrheal drugs would tend to cause constipation at high doses (Gilani and Rahman, 2005), it is the beauty of nature that both gut stimulatory and inhibitory constituents co-exist in plant remedies, such as ginger (Ghayur and Gilani, 2005),
ispaghula (Mehmood et al., 2011), black pepper (Mehmood and Gilani, 2010), which are probably meant by nature to offset the side effects due to extreme effect that occurs with chemical drug (Gilani and Rahman, 2005).
If an increase in dietary fibre is advised, it should be soluble fibre such as
ispaghula powder or foods high in soluble fibre (for example, oats) Pharmacological therapy