ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY OF ETHANOLIC EXTRACT OF LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA
R. Jona Methusala*, Dasi Sreya Reddy, Dereddy Manjusha, Desam Krishna Priya and Ganuga Harisha
ABSTRACT
The plants play a vital role in human life. Every plant has some disease curativeproperties in it. Even the fodder plants have medicinal properties. In the similar way thepresent research was carried out to study phytochemical present in the leaves of fodder plant “leucaenaleucocephala”. The activity was compared with standard Tinidazole. The ethanolic extractshows significant activity when compared to the standard Tinidazole. The paralysis and deathtimeis15. 2, 12, 10. 5 and 30, 26, 23minutesrespectivelyatconcentrations 10, 15 and 20mg/ml. whereas these are 16, 13, 8 and 21, 19, 15 minutes for Tinidazole. In order to confirmthe studiesinvivostudieshavetobeconducted.
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