Sumeet Dwivedi

Herbal Oral Contraceptives: Methods of Preparation and Conservation of Herbs Sumeet Dwivedi

Contraceptives are preparations used for reversible suppression of fertility. Because of our alarming population trends, anti fertility drugs are the need of the day. In developing countries particularly the mortality rate has declined and birth rate has increased due to urbanization. In earlier part of present century method of contraception used (condoms, diaphragms, spermicidal creams, foam tablets etc) were intimately related to several inter course, therefore, despised by most couples. These also having higher failure rate announced the successful use of an oral progestin for contraception, separating fertility control from coitus. Due to major side effects, the herbal oral contraceptives are the need of hour. The word herbal is the symbol of safety in contrast to the synthetic ones, which have adverse effect on human health. Modern allopathic medicines have provided several preventive and corrective methods of contraception as discuss above, but none of which is very safe and without any serious side effects.