Ethnoveterinary importance of herbal galactogogues - a review dopamine receptors and thereby augmenting milk supply . Commercially available synthetic drugs induce adverse effect on review recent progress made in the field of commercially available and tranditional galactogogues . Galactogogues are medications that aid in initiating , maintaining , and augmenting of adequate milk production . The term galactogogue refers to substances that augment established lactation , whereas the term galactopoietic is used independently to describe the hormone preparations which enhance milk production in an animal already in lactation [ 1 ]. Galactogogues may be synthetic , plant-derived or endogenous products . They act through exerting an influence on adreno-hypothalamo-hypophyseal-gonadal axis by blocking hypothalamic dopaminergic receptors or by inhibiting dopamine producing neurons . These medications increase prolactin secretion by antago- nizing dopamine receptors [ 2 ]. Most of the information about herbal medication comes from Indian Traditional Knowledge ( ITK ) because more than 80 % of world population depends on it for primary health care and the information is passed through generations [ 3 ]. Herbs and their preparations have multiple diverse useful actions on the human and animal health . The advantages of herbal medicines are due to constituent chemicals developed as a result of co-evolution between flora and fauna and their enzyme driven synthesis leading to development of optically pure chiral molecules with specific reactions in the mammalian body [ 3 ]. So , phyto-pharmacological research on natural products can show a ray of hope for the discoveryofnew active compounds with novel structure which have potential to serve as a natural lead compound for development of new galactogogues . Majority of these herbal preparations have however not been scientifi- cally , systematically and thoroughly evaluated , but Milk production ( lactogenesis ), which is a conse

Mohanty, I; Senapati, M R; Jena, D; Behera, P C

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