A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON PLANT OF EUPHORBIA HIRTA LINN.

Plants serve human as a primary source of food, shelter, and medicine. So, understanding the plants uses in treating diseases is very important for leading a healthier life. Helminthes infection are usually found in community and are well recognized as cause of much acute and chronic illness among the individual as well as cattle’s. For evaluating that we select the Pherithema posthuma a Helminthes is frequently known as earth-worms. For that we evaluated the anthelmintic activity of aqueous and methanolic extracts of leaves of Euphorbia hirta linn. (euphorbiaceae) using different concentration of above solvent extract we evaluated the Time of paralysis (P) and Time of death (D) of the worms. The main active constituent responsible for showing the anthelmintic efficacy in the Euphorbia hirta plant is believed that Quercetin, a flavonoid. This plant contains several bioactive compounds, butquercetin has been widely studied for its broad-spectrum biological activities including anthelmintic activity. Albendazole (Std) was used as standard. Anthelmintic drug and Dis. H2O was used as a control. The result of this study indicated that methanolic extract significantly exhibited paralysis(P) in worms in lower dose and also caused death of worms especially at higher concentration, as compared to standard drug.