Phytomedicine. 2003 Mar; 10(2-3): 233-60.

A review on potentiality of medicinal plants as the source of new contraceptive principles.

Unny R, Chauhan AK, Joshi YC, Dobhal MP, Gupta RS.

Chemical Laboratory, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India.

Recently, a review has already been made on the synthetic contraceptive agents whereas this review embraces the natural contraceptives upto year 2001 with 355 references. It also includes the isolation of their active principles, methods of analysis of active ingredients through TLC, HPLC, their side effects and pharmacological action.