Some Lesser Known Oral Herbal Contraceptives in Folk Claims as Anti-Fertility and Fertility Induced Plants in Bastar Region of Chhattisgarh

Abstract

The traditional knowledge prevailing among Gond tribes of Bastar region regarding use of various plants as anti fertility inducing agents and fertility inducing agents have been studied and described. Objective :The present study is result of documentation of indigenous knowledge about medicinal plants from Gond tribes of Bastar region Chhattisgarh state. Materials and method: The documentation of traditional knowledge from Gond tribes has been conducted during ethnobotanical studies. The information was collected by interviewing local vaidys and traditional herbal-healers prevalent in Bastar region. They have immense knowledge about plants and drugs the same are being utilized by tribals since last several centuries by collecting plants and their parts to prevent birth as oral contraceptive and anti-fertility agents and also as fertility inducing agent. Result and conclusion: The lesser known 22 herbal plants used by Gond tribes of Bastar 18 uses of plants as anti fertility inducing agent and 04 uses of plants as fertility inducing agent plants has been briefly described in the paper alongwith botanical names, vernacular name family and method of preparation of drugs and their dosages. The knowledge of plants used by traditional herbal healers for anti-fertility purposes, isolation of their active principles etc. would be of immense help to replace synthetic drugs.