World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

ANTIFERTILITY ACTIVITIES OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

Tejashri S. Shinde*, Dattaprasad N. Vikhe, Ravindra S. Jadhav

ABSTRACT

The intention of this review was to provide an exhaustive analysis of medicinal plants used as antifertility agent in female all over the world by various tribes and ethenic groups. Plants as abortifacient and contraceptive were investigated to the ancient physicians of India. The profiles presented include information about the scientific epithet, family, the degree of antifertility activity and active agents. we performed central, embase and pubmed searches using term such as anti-implantation, abortifacide, antiovulation, and antispermatogenic activity of plants. In this paper, various medicinal plants have been reviewed for through studies such as polygonum hydropiper linn, ailanthus excelsa roxb, plumbago zeylanica, plumeria rubra. Many of these medicinal plants come out to act through anantizygotic mechanism. For women who can’t use current forms of contraception due to unfavourable effect or other reasons, therefore herbs can offer alternatives and reducing fertility would be better than other contraceptives. This article may help reviewer to examine medicinal plants answerable for anti-fertility activity.

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