[The anticestodal activity of preparations made from the breadfruit].

Abstract

Breadfruit tree (Artocarpus tonkinensis) is used in Laotian folk medicine for the treatment of taeniasis. Breadfruit tree preparations impair in vitro the motility of the cestodes Hymenolepis nana causing their motor excitation, contracture and death. The latter is observed when fairly high concentrations of the preparations (10(-2) = 2.10(-3)) are used. In mice experimentally invaded by H. nana it was shown that the water extraction of breadfruit tree substance is rather less effective than its ethanol extraction and has some purgative action, which increases the therapeutic effect.

• Authors: K Rasfon
• Journal: Meditsinskaia parazitologiia i parazitarnye bolezni (Med Parazitol (Mosk)) 1991 Sep-Oct Issue 5 Pg. 49-52 ISSN: 0025-8326 [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Protivotsestodnaia aktivnost' preparatov iz khlebnogo dereva.
• PMID: 1758366 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Chemical References

• Anticestodal Agents
• Plant Extracts
• Powders
• Tablets

Topics

• Animals
• Anticestodal Agents (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
• Drug Evaluation, Preclinical
• Hymenolepiasis (drug therapy, parasitology)
• Hymenolepis (drug effects)
• Laos
• Mice
• Plant Extracts (administration & dosage, therapeutic use)
• Plants, Medicinal
• Powders
• Tablets
• Time Factors
• Trees