Ashish Sarkar
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Pueraria tuberosa Linn belonging to family Fabaceae, it’s an herb and distributed throughout south East Asia and predominately in India. Commonly known as White Indian Kudzu, Siali, Patal Kaddu and Dari.
Aim: In ethnomedicinal reports it was found that this herb has excellent medicinal property also used in various traditional system of medicine. Earlier it was reported that it has been used as restorative tonic, antiaging agent, spermatogenic, immune modulator and also recommended for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Based on traditional knowledge we have selected Pueraria tuberosa Linn our aim was to find out its hematinic property on experimental animals.
Materials: Water extracts harvested and tuberous roots of Pueraria tuberosa Linn, Male Wister rats, Phenyl hydrazine.
Result: Findings of the study suggested that aqueous extract of Pueraria tuberosa Linn have significant increase of Rbc and Hb level concludes plant have moderate hematinic activity on animal models chosen further study are needed for evaluation of phytochemical responsible for hematinic activity.
Key words: Antianemic, phenyl hydrazine, Pueraria tuberose, red blood cell