The salient diagnostic pharmacognostical characters of the roots of Mollugo strica which sows promise as an antifertility drug for future have been studied. The young root is di-to-tri-arch, diarch conditions being most common. The cork cambium arises in the outermost layer of cortex forming 2-3 layers of cork cells on the outside and phelloderm towards the innerside. In the nature root, two co...

Woodfordia fruticosa is a high demand medicinal plant for pharmaceutics and dye industries. The plant is distributed in North-eastern India. This review highlights the spectacular properties of this plant. Flowers of W. fruticosa have been used traditionally in the treatment of dysentery, diarrhea, other bowel complaints, internal haemorrhages, leucorrhoea and menorrhagia. Externally, powdered ...

Grangea maderaspatana (L.) Poir. is a popular Indian medicinal plant belonging to the Asteraceae family. This plant commonly known as Madras Carpet grown in wet places. A wide range of phytochemical constituents have been isolated from this plant. It has long been used in traditional Ayurvedic Indian medicine for various diseases. This plant is pharmacologically studied for oestrogenicity, anti...

The effect of alcoholic extract of the aerial parts of Artemisia vulgaris Linn on estrous cycle and implantation, in female albino rats, was studied. The drug induced an irregular estrous cycle with random disappearance of estrous phase and increase in the number of metestrus phases within the estrous cycle, observed for the total test period of 18 days. It exhibited 80% anti-implantation activ...

The present study was aimed at evaluating the antifertility effect of phyllanthus amarus extract in male wistar rats. The body and organ weights, cauda epididymal sperm parameters, serum levels of male reproductive hormones and fructose were assessed. Daily oral doses of the extract were administered to each animal in three different test groups for 28 consecutive days. Results show significant...

the synthesis of twenty five esters of testosterone (17β -hydroxyandrost- 4-en-3-one) is described. all esters are derivatives of cycloalkycarboxylic acids. some of the esters possess α- , β -and/or & - substitution in the ester side-chain. the work was undertaken in order to evaluate long-acting male antifertility effect of such esters. most of the compounds, especially compound no.1, were fou...