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Anthelmintic Activities of Polypodium Decumanum Leaf-Extracts

1OPJS University, Churu, Rajasthan

2Department of Pharmacy, Dron College of Education Meerut


American Journal of Biomedical Research. 2021, Vol. 9 No. 1, 1-4
DOI: 10.12691/ajbr-9-1-1
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Pawan Sharma, Chhater Singh, Rohit Saraswat. Anthelmintic Activities of Polypodium Decumanum Leaf-Extracts. American Journal of Biomedical Research. 2021; 9(1):1-4. doi: 10.12691/ajbr-9-1-1.

Correspondence to: Chhater  Singh, Department of Pharmacy, Dron College of Education Meerut. Email: Pharma_pharm@yahoo.com

Abstract

Various herbal plants used in traditional medicines contain a vast array of substances that can be used to treat various disease and complications, the present study deals with anthelmintic activity of different extracts of leaves of Polypodium decumanum, a potential medicinal plant. The crude plant extracts of leaf part exhibited anthelmintic activity. Two concentrations (30mg/ml and 40mg/ml) of each extract were studied, which involved for the determination of time of paralysis and time of death of the test worms. It was found that ethyl acetate extracts exhibited significant anthelmintic activity followed by ethanolic extract and aqueous extract in causing paralysis and death of earth worms.

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