Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part C (2025)

Commiphora caudata is an ethnomedicinal plant which has been used traditionally in the treatment of inflammation and analgesic condition. It also used in the treatment of fever, straungary, vitiated condition of vata and pitta in sidda system of medicine. It also has antioxidant, hepatoprotective, antii nflammatory, antiulcer, and antihyperlipidemic activity were reported from the plant. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the anthelmintic activity of aqueous and ethanolic extracts of 50mg/ml and 100mg/ml using earth worms. The time of paralysis and time of death was evaluated and it is compared with reference standard albendazole 10mg/m and normal saline as a control group. Aqueous and ethanolic extract exhibited the dose dependent activities as evidenced by decreased paralysing time and death time