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Diversity of medicinal plants used as male contraceptives: An initiative towards herbal contraceptives

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Title Diversity of medicinal plants used as male contraceptives: An initiative towards herbal contraceptives
 
Creator Zaman, Wajid
Ahmad, Mushtaq
Zafar, Muhammad
Amina, Hafiza
Lubna
Saqib, Saddam
Ullah, Fazal
Ayaz, Asma
Bahadur, Saraj
Park, SeonJoo
 
Subject Male contraceptive
Medicinal plants
Population
Traditional knowledge
 
Description 616-624
In the recent era, population control is a global issue as well as national community health concern. Plants are being used
as a source of medicines by human beings since ancient times. This study highlights the collection, identification and
diversity of medicinal plants concerning their traditional knowledge to get better access to the herbal male contraception.
Local informants and traditional health practitioners were consulted for information about the local names, distribution, part
used and mode of utilization of the medicinal plant. To select plants with high medicinal uses, different quantitative
measurements i.e., Relative Frequency of Citation (RFC), Disease Consensus Index (DCI) and descriptive methods of
Jaccard Index (JI) was performed. A total of 100 plant species (used for infertility by the local communities) belonging to 50
families and 91 genera were collected. Jaccard Index results showed that 28 plant species were reported for the first time
used as male contraceptives in Pakistan. The frequency of citation (FC) value ranged from 35 to 56. Plants with high
Relative frequency of citation (RFC) and Disease Consensus index (DCI) values showed a high consensus for the
antifertility among informants and THPs. Our study is focused on the diversity and priority of medicinal plants as male
contraceptives.
 
Date 2022-07-28T11:19:08Z
2022-07-28T11:19:08Z
2022-07
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/60189
 
Language en
 
Relation Int Cl.22: A61K 36/00, A61P 15/16
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJTK Vol.21(3) [July 2022]