Medicinal plants with potential anti-fertility activity: A review

Abstract

Medicinal plants is a common word which can utter in everyone’s mouth that are helpful in treating many diseases which cannot be done by even allopathic medicine. Among those the birth control and at the same time increasing the fertility in human beings are both become major problems nowadays. This review presents updated information gathered on scientifically proved medicinal plants used for the anti-fertility activity. This study provides the information on botanical name, family, parts used, solvents used, and their chemical constituents present in plants. In spite of rapid progress and spread of modern medicine and surgery, faith in and popularity of traditional methods has not decreased. There are a large number of studies which supports the anti-fertility effects of traditional herbal medicines. The aim of this review is to highlight the work on anti-fertility of plant origin. The present paper also involves various plant drugs and their bioactive extracts involved in the anti-fertility mechanism. This article may help investigators to identify medicinal plants responsible for the anti-fertility activity.