The anticestodal efficacy of nine plants that are used in the indigenous system of medicine by Na... more The anticestodal efficacy of nine plants that are used in the indigenous system of medicine by Naga tribes in north-east India to cure intestinal-helminth parasitic infections was tested employing Raillietina echinobothrida , a tapeworm of poultry, as a model test parasite. The study revealed that the leaves of Psidium guajava , Houttuynia cordata and stalk of Lasia spinosa possess a profound anticestodal efficacy as evident by the mean mortality time of R. echinobothrida which ranged from 1 to 3.66 hrs, following exposure to 5 - 40 mg/ml concentration of these plant extracts. Moderate activity was recorded for the leaves of Clerodendrum colebrookianum , Lasia spinosa and Centella asiatica , while Curcuma longa , Cinnamomum cassia , Gynura angulosa , Lasia spinosa (stem) and Aloe vera revealed a negligible degree of anticestodal activity.
The anticestodal efficacy of nine plants that are used in the indigenous system of medicine by Na... more The anticestodal efficacy of nine plants that are used in the indigenous system of medicine by Naga tribes in north-east India to cure intestinal-helminth parasitic infections was tested employing Raillietina echinobothrida , a tapeworm of poultry, as a model test parasite. The study revealed that the leaves of Psidium guajava , Houttuynia cordata and stalk of Lasia spinosa possess a profound anticestodal efficacy as evident by the mean mortality time of R. echinobothrida which ranged from 1 to 3.66 hrs, following exposure to 5 - 40 mg/ml concentration of these plant extracts. Moderate activity was recorded for the leaves of Clerodendrum colebrookianum , Lasia spinosa and Centella asiatica , while Curcuma longa , Cinnamomum cassia , Gynura angulosa , Lasia spinosa (stem) and Aloe vera revealed a negligible degree of anticestodal activity.
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