A REVIEW ON ANTIFERTILITY EFFECTS OF INDIAN PLANTS USED TRADITIONALLY FOR CONTRACEPTION

Abstract

Rapid rise in human population creates so many problems in developing countries like India. As population increased natural resources declined and increase pollution due to increased demands of urbanization, employment and healthcare. Since ancient time contraceptives have been used to control population including natural methods. In modern time many natural and synthetic agents have been used to check the population at a constant and sustainable level. Attention has now been paid to indigenous medicinal plants since many plants used for contraceptive effects. Thus, there is a need of replace these agents by plants. The investigation of plant constituents with the development of an effective, reversible and safe male contraceptive represents a potential alternative approach to birth control from the existing available methods. These reviews give a detailed introduction on Indian herbal plants explored for fertility regulating effects in male animals. Most of these plants were evaluated in the Department of Zoology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur since a long back.