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PHYTOCHEMICAL AND ANTHELMINTIC EVALUATION OF LANTANA CAMARA (L.) VAR. ACULEATE LEAVES AGAINST PHERETIMA POSTHUMA

@inproceedings{Patel2011PHYTOCHEMICALAA,
  title={PHYTOCHEMICAL AND ANTHELMINTIC EVALUATION OF LANTANA CAMARA (L.) VAR. ACULEATE LEAVES AGAINST PHERETIMA POSTHUMA},
  author={Jitendra Patel and S Deepika and Shamim A Qureshi},
  year={2011}
}

• J. Patel, S. Deepika, S. Qureshi
• Published 2011
• Geography

Lantana camara Linn. (Verbenaceae) is a hardy, evergreen, straggling shrub with characteristic odour, it grows up to 3 m height, with or without minute prickles on the branches. It is among top ten invasive weeds on the earth. It is a perennial shrub found growing up to 2000 m altitude in tropical, sub tropical and temperate parts of the world. The plant is spread widely over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and north-eastern States of India. Successive extracts from the leaves of Lantana camara Linn (Verbanaceae) were investigated for their anthelmintic activity against Pheretima posthuma and three concentrations (10, 50 and 100 mg/ml) of each extracts were studied in activity, which involved the determination of time of paralysis and time of death of the worm. Ethanolic extract exhibited significant anthelmintic activity at highest concentration of 100 mg/ml. Piperazine citrate in 10 mg/ml concentration as that of extract was included as standard reference and 1% Gum acacia in