Combined with lack of proper medical facilities in rural areasДЄnd access to proper medical facilities in urban areas, even in the capital city of Dhaka, it has been reported that about 80% of people who are at high riskДЇor diarrhea in Dhaka sought care initially from a non-professional healthcare provider. Illiteracy, poor economic conditions, and lack of proper healthcare educationДЄre among the factors behind the prevalence of enteric pathogens and diseases in Bangladesh. Water quality, sanitation, and hand washing have been described as major causesД«ehind growth faltering in children caused through environmental enteropathy. It has been reported that in Bangladesh about 85% of women studied who lived in slums and 41% of rural women washed their hands only with water even afterДefecation, a practice which can cause spread of diarrhea and dysentery. It is to be further noted that Bangladesh has 86,000 villages but the villages lack modern (allopathic) doctors and This representsДЄ considerable burden on a large number of rural households, who not only have more children and less income but also live under unhygienic conditions with On average, rural Bangladeshi households withД¬hildren < 5 years of age spent 1.3% of their annual income for treatment of diarrhea and acute respiratory infections in those children. Viral pathogens amongst rural children in Bangladesh suffering from moderate to severe diarrhea or MSD. Rotavirus and norovirus has been indicated to be the most prevalent Shigella sonnei diarrheal episodes among deep tube well user family children. It wasДЇurther observed that amongst shallow tube well users, children have more severe Shigella flexneri diarrheal episodes versus the less severe In a study conducted in Bangladesh, it was found that poor rural families use drinking water from shallow tube wells rather than deep tube wells. Shigella, Campylobacter jejuni, Vibrio cholerae, Salmonella (non-typhoid), and the protozoa Cryptosporidium. According to WHO, causative agents for diarrhea and dysentery include rotavirus, various bacteria like enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, Dysentery is diarrhea where mucus and blood areДЄlso present. Period, watery stool being defined as stool which takes the shape of the container in which it is placed. Diarrhea is the passing of watery stool at least 3 times within a 24 hour Valid from the scientific view point and the plants merit potential for further scientific studies leading to discovery of effective anti-diarrheal andД«angladesh Chandpur Diarrhea Dysentery Folk MedicineДiarrhea and dysentery are prevalent in developing countries where according to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 1.3 thousand millionД®pisodes 3.2 million deaths occur every year in children under 5 years of age. Results: Interviews of four FMPs resulted in obtaining names of seven plants along with formulations and dosages for treatment of diarrhea and dysentery.Дiscussion: Perusal of scientific literature suggested that the FMPвЂ™s selections of these plants for treatment of diarrhea and dysentery were quite Scientific validations of the plantsвЂ™ folk medicinal uses were done through literature search of phytochemicals and pharmacological activities reported of the Methods: Interviews of folk medicinal practitioners were carried out with the help of a semi-structured questionnaire and the guided field-walk method. Objective: To document medicinal plants used to treat diarrhea and dysentery by Folk Medicinal Practitioners (FMPs) in Chandpur district, Bangladesh.

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