Toxicological evaluation of the aqueous leaf extract of Moringa oleifera Lam. (Moringaceae)

2012 ◽  
Vol 139 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olufunsho Awodele ◽  
Ibrahim Adekunle Oreagba ◽  
Saidi Odoma ◽  
Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva ◽  
Vincent Oluseye Osunkalu
Author(s):  
Anitha R ◽  
Sahaya Kalaivani

The objective of the study is to evaluate the antihelminthic property of Moringa oleifera aqueous leaf extract by studying the paralysis and mortality time of Tubiflex tubiflex (blood worm). The aqueous extract at 200mg/ml exhibited paralysis time of 1 minute and death time of 2 minutes which was on par with synthetic drug Albendazole at 20mg/ml. Crude condensed tannin paralysed T.tubiflex at 60 seconds with mortality time of 9 minutes at 1mg/ml. T.tubiflex was selected for the study since they share a similar anatomical and physiological aspects with the intestinal round worm. The study indicated that T.tubiflex was inhibited effectively by condensed tannin in Moringa oleifera aqueous leaf extract and perhaps might be more effective on the round worms as well, since it is consumed as vegetable for its nutritive and medicinal values in tropical and subtropical regions.


2020 ◽  
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Author(s):  
Ammara Saleem ◽  
Mohammad Saleem ◽  
Muhammad Furqan Akhtar ◽  
Mirza Muhammad Faran Ashraf Baig ◽  
Azhar Rasul

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
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Iyanuoluwa Omolola Ogunmiluyi ◽  
Olufunke Olubunmi Falayi ◽  
Blessing Seun Ogunpolu ◽  
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