Abstract Background The plant Hymenocardia acida (Euphorbiaceae) is utilized as herbal preparation against diarrhoea, dysentery and other diseases. We aimed to determine the antidiarrhoeal potentials of (MEHA) stem bark in vivo vitro. Preliminary phytochemical contents, well acute toxicity effect extract, were investigated based on standard experimental methods. properties MEHA at 150, 300 600 ...