The ethnobotanical survey was made during last two years in the tribal population of Madhya Pradesh. Valuable information about the medicinal use of certain wild species against various diseases amongst tribal women are obtained by personal interviews. Some species are being used by them against various veneral diseases. Different plant parts of few species are also used by them for antifertili...

Ocimum sanctum L. is commonly named Tulsi in India, an herb belonging to the Lamiaceae family. It has enormous medicinally valuable essential oils such as eugenol, oleanolic acid, carvacrol, linalool secondary metabolites. used treat various diseases Ayurveda and also processes of several pharmacological properties antioxidant, antifungal, antibacterial, antidiabetic, antifertility, hepatoprote...

To study whether the antibody against the testis form of the nuclear autoantigenic sperm protein (tNASP) could result in reproductive failure, we successfully cloned and expressed a 339-bp cDNA fragment of mouse tNASP (mtNASP). Using mouse as a model, recombinant mtNASP (rmtNASP) and a synthetic peptide, human tNASP(393-408) (htNASP(393-408)), were investigated for their antifertility effect. A...

Bacground: The practice of traditional medicine for the control of fertility in most parts of India is based on the uses of plant medicines for many years. Cissampelos pareira Linn. is one of the folk medicinal plants commonly used as antifertility agent in some places of India. Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the antifertility effect of the methanolic extract of Cissamp...

BACKGROUND One of the major concerns of governments of developing and developed countries is to have a check on their population increase. Realising the importance of avoiding the harmful effects of synthetic compounds, scientists and researchers throughout the world are cooperating in efforts to design new and effective contraceptives from compounds of plant origin. METHODS In this paper, we...

BACKGROUND Asparagus africanus is claimed to have use in reproductive related health problems in some areas of Ethiopia. OBJECTIVE To study the potential antifertility effect of the aqueous and ethanol extracts of the leaves and roots of Asparagus africanus in rats. METHODS Water and ethanol extracts were given by gavages to rats in the in vivo test at a dose of 300 mg/kg of body weight, an...

This experiment tested the antifertility effect of Aegle marmelos. Oral administration of aqueous extract to male rats brought about a highly significant decrease in the weights of testes, epididymis, seminal vesicle, ventral prostate and vas deferens. Sperm motility as well as sperm density in the cauda epididymis was reduced significantly: fertility was reduced by 70%. The sialic acid, protei...

BACKGROUND Hymenocardia acida is traditionally used in African herbal medicine and has numerous therapeutic benefits. But little is known about its potentially negative effects on pregnant women. OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to evaluate the antifertility effect of aqueous ethanolic extract of Hymenocardia acida stem bark in female Wistar rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four groups...