In-vivo Antidiarrhoeal and anti-ulcerative activities of the Tetraclinis articulata species of theCupressaceae family the standard drug loperamide (5 mg/kg body weight). After 30 minutes, each animal was give 2 ml of castrol oil orally, after 60 minutes each animal was given 1 mL of charcoal meal via the oral route. After anesthesia with chloroform, all animals were sacrificed after 60 min by opening the abdomen, and the distance covered by the charcoal meal in the intestine, from the pylorus to the caecum, was measured and expressed as the percentage of distance moved [10].Percentage of transit inhibition = 100 × (T 0 -T 1 )/T 0 T 0 : Total length of intestine.