Antifertility Investigations on the Ethanol Extract of Eugenia Singampattiana Bedd Leaf in Male Albino Rats

INTRODUCTION: The World Health Organization (WHO) has constituted a population control programme which includes studies on drugs used in traditional medical practices. Medicinal plant products have a long history of indigenous use in India as well as in other countries 1 . Phytotherapy has a very long tradition, although proper scientific explanation is relatively new. In our country as well as in the world, there are several medicinal plants associated with antifertility properties 2, 3 . Fertility regulation with plants or plant preparations has been reported in the ancient literature of indigenous systems of medicine. A large number of plant species with antifertility effects have been screened in China and India, since last 50 years and were subsequently fortified by national and international agencies 4, 5 . However, the search for an orally active, safe and effective plant preparation or its compound is yet to be fulfilled for fertility regulation as many of them have incomplete inhibition of fertility or side effects.