Abstract
This review reveals that some plants and their part used having anti-fertility action, which are helpful for researcher to develop new herbal anti-fertility formulations. In the recent years, interest in drugs of plant origin has been progressively increased. The aim of this review is to highlight the work on anti-fertility of plant origin. We undertook an extensive bibliographic review by analysing peer reviewed papers, and further consulting well accepted worldwide scientific databases. Peer reviewed articles were gathered consulting the databases NISCAIR, SCOPUS, PUBMED and Google scholar using terms such as “antifertility”, “anti-implantation”, and “antispermatogenic” activity of plants. Plants, including their parts and extracts, that have traditionally been used to facilitate antifertility have been considered as antifertility agents. In this paper, various medicinal plants have been reviewed for thorough studies such as Aegle marmelos, Chenopodium ambrosioides, Jatropha gossypifolia, Leonotis ocymifolia. For women who can't use modern forms of contraception due to adverse effect or other reasons, therefore herbs can offer alternatives and reducing fertility would be better than other contraceptives. This review creates a solid foundation upon which to further study the efficacy of plants that are both currently used by women as traditional antifertility medicines, but also could be efficacious as an antifertility agent with additional research and study.
Highlights
Traditional plants are one of the important parts of human society which helps to fight against number of diseases since the dawn of human civilization
The high price of new drug, inaccessibility in the remote area and numerous side effects of the synthetic agents available today for fertility control like hormonal imbalance, increased risk of cancer, hypertension and weight gain have increased the need of herbal medicine which are obtained from the extract of medicinal plant
Herbal contraceptives provide an opportunity for them to use cheap, potential and efficient drugs having lesser side effects, to the women living in the rural areas in developing nations with very high population like India, China, Africa and Bangladesh
Summary
Traditional plants are one of the important parts of human society which helps to fight against number of diseases since the dawn of human civilization. One of the life-threatening problems of the developing countries is the geometrical rise of human population. This flares up may have a negative influence on our economic policies and would simultaneously misbalance our financial foundation. The high price of new drug, inaccessibility in the remote area and numerous side effects of the synthetic agents available today for fertility control like hormonal imbalance, increased risk of cancer, hypertension and weight gain have increased the need of herbal medicine which are obtained from the extract of medicinal plant. Herbal contraceptives provide an opportunity for them to use cheap, potential and efficient drugs having lesser side effects, to the women living in the rural areas in developing nations with very high population like India, China, Africa and Bangladesh. The list of potential antifertility plants is presented with their scientific name, family and the part of the plant used
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