School of Pharmacy and Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Sree Vidyanikethan College of Pharmacy, Tirupati-517 102, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Sree Vidyanikethan College of Pharmacy, Tirupati-517 102, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Department of Pharmaceutical chemistry, Sree Vidyanikethan College of Pharmacy, Tirupati-517 102, Andhra Pradesh, India

Department of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Sree Vidyanikethan College of Pharmacy, Tirupati-517 102, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Antifilarial activity ,Medicinal plants ,Filariasis ,Microfilaricidal activity ,folklore antifilarial plants ,

The filarial parasites were considered causing remarkable problems for the human beings and animals. Many modern synthetic medicines found to be very effective in curing diseases cause a lot of side effects. The natural drugs were proven to have less side effects inspite their reletively low activity. A large number of medicinal plants were claimed to possess antifilarial activity in traditional systems of medicine. Considering the folk claims, several medicinal plants have been evaluated for this activity using various invitro and invivo methods. The present review summarizes some important pharmacological and preliminary studies on antifilarial medicinal plants, products and isolated principles from them, which can be investigated further to achieve lead molecules in the search of novel herbal drugs to treat filariasis.

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