Volume : 8, Issue : 2, February - 2019

Evaluation of Anti-Urolithiatic Activity of Costus igneus and Dolichos biflorus Linn (Horse gram) seeds.

Madhura Mukadam

Abstract :

The present study was undertaken to evaluate the in vitro antiurolithiatic activity of the Costus igneus and Dolichos biflorus Linn (Horse gram) seeds. Both alcoholic and Aqueous extracts of Dolichos biflorus showed their maximum efficiencies in the dissolution of calcium oxalate crystals than Costus igneus extracts. Alcoholic extracts of both the plants were even more efficient than aqueous extracts in dissolution of calcium oxalate crystals. Our results have clearly indicated that the aqueous and alcoholic extracts of Dolichos biflorus were quite promising for further studies in this regard. In this study Cystone was used as standard drug