Effect of Ionidium Suffruticosum on Testes of Young Albino Rat

Fertility is an important factor for male and female in life. Many natural non-toxic herbs were found to enhance the fertility in both the sexes. Some of herbs were studied for its aphrodisiac action. This study involves the effect of the herb Ionidium suffruticosum in improving the fertility on male albino rats. In this study Ionidium suffruticosum powder were administered orally to the experimental albino rats of Wister lineage (n=10) and compared to the control albino rats (n=10) using various parameters such as weight of animals, dimension of testes, hormonal analysis, semen analysis, histological analysis of testes, diameter of seminiferous tubules and the drug’s efficacy was investigated. The administration of the drug showed significant improvement of all the parameters in experimental rats when compared to control rats. The data’s were analyzed using student’s t test and found to be statistically significant. The herb was found to be effective on the gonads of male albino rats and also it’s a safe drug without adverse effect for enhancing the male sexual activity.