Abstract
Herbs and herbal products have been used traditionally to cure almost all ailments of human as well as animals. In the Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani, are detail description of use of plants as medicine has been found. The South-Eastern Region of India is one of the richest biodiversity hotspots, with more than 500 species of medicinal plants used by different tribal population groups as contraceptives and treating reproductive anomalies. It has been observed that more than 70% of the people living in some tribal dominated areas of Tamil Nadu even today depend largely on traditional Medicinal system. In the present study, well-experienced traditional herbal medicine practitioners were interviewed about the uses of herbs to cure infertility and to induce fertility in three districts of Tamil Nadu, India. The preliminary survey clearly indicated that an Ethno-medicinal plants species have been still in the use for treatment of sterility or enhancing fertility or for vitality by some rural people in the Tamil Nadu.

201604017A survey on the traditional use of fertility inducing plants used by herbal pdf