Medicinal potential of Leptadenia hastata: A Review

Abstract

Leptadenia. hastata is a climbing shrub produces many flexible latex that become woody at the bottom. Research studies confirmed that L. hastata Medicinal Properties as source of medical potential remedies for thousands of years. Investigations show that until now more than 80% of African populat on use single or combine pl ant extracts for their everyday health care needs. This is not due to poverty only, but the richness of African plant species that have ealing properties known throughout the ages. L. hastata is useful tropical plant and an African plant, found evenly distributed in Kano and Jigawa States, Nigeria which is used as nutriment as well as for medical purposes due to its heal th promoting properties. Traditional healers use L. hastata to treat many diseases as hypertension, sexual impotence,trypanosomiasis, acute rhinopharyngitis in quantitative and qualitative terms, the leaves of L. hastata can be in biomedical research. In vivo studies showed the antifertility effect of L . hastata leaves extract s which can be useful for hormonal therapy replacement. Herein, the ecology, tr aditional medicinal uses, phyto chemistry, toxicity and pharmacology of L. hastata in consideration of i ts antifertility activity are re viewed.