PHYTOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION AND ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY OF VARIOUS LEAF EXTRACTS OF CROTALARIA PALLIDA AITON
*Sangram K Panda, Debajyoti Das and Niraj K Tripthathy
ABSTRACT
The objective of present work was to phytochemical investigation and evaluate the anthelmintic activity of ethanol, ethyl acetat,n-butanol and petroleum ether extract of Leaves of Crotalaria pallida using Indian earthworms Pheretimaposthuma as test worm. Various concentrations of each extracts were tested .which involved determination of paralysis time and death time of the worm. albendazole. (10mg/ml) was used as a reference standard. The result of present study indicates that.Among all the extract, ethanol and petroleum ether showed dose dependant & significant anthelminitic activity. petroleum ether showed better activity as compared to reference drug albendazole.
Keywords: Crotalaria pallida; anthelmintic activity; albendazole.
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