Contribution to study on the contraceptive effects of Chua ngut-embelia sp
- Author:
Tho Truong Thi Pham
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Traditional medicine
- MeSH:
Plants, Medicinal;
Contraception;
Medicine, Traditional
- From:Pharmaceutical Journal
1998;272(12):12-15
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The female rats with ages of 3-5 months having the special nutrition treated by extract of Embelia.sp at dose of 30 g medicinal plant/body-weight/day. They lived together with male rats since the first day of the treatment. Duration of treatment was about 21 days. Results have shown that the embelia had contraceptive effects in 100% of male rats while 100% of female rats in the control become pregnant rats. The leaves of embelia had clearly no acute toxicity.
