A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS

Indian medicinal herbs have long been recognized for their healing properties. The oldest
medical system, Ayurveda, advises using treatments based mostly on medicinal herbs to
address a wide range of human and animal ailments. The average person can afford and get
herbal therapies. The powerful source of many pharmacological activities was medicinal
plants. Due to the ability of the plants and its chemical to treat a disease that results in
significant financial loss and decreased animal production for livestock owners, one of the
plants with anthelmintic action has attracted a lot of interest. Although less effective at curing
diseases, crude drugs are generally side effect free. Various in vitro and in vivo techniques
have been used to examine medicinal plants for this activity. The crude compounds made
from plants are less effective in treating parasite disorders but they are generally free from
adverse effects. In undeveloped nations, helminthiasis is historically treated with a wide
variety of medicinal plants. In order to treat parasitic infections, plant-derived medications are
receiving a lot of attention.This review present the herbal medicines or medicinal plants
which are have number of benefits and used as anthelmintic. Ethnobotanical survey, in India
the belief that their evaluation will accelerate the discovery of new effective therapeutic
agents as anthelmintic.