End of the Year, Men Can Take It Pill

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AS contraception, men no longer just have a condom. There is a pill made from plant extracts that are ready gandarusa mass produced and circulated to the end of 2011.

This was stated directly by the Head of the Population and Family Planning (BKKBN) Sugiri Syarief. "Later this year we see the result, the patient alone," he said during clarified Legal in Jakarta, Saturday (10/09/2011).

He explained that the findings of contraceptives lecturer pharmaceutical Airlangga University, Bambang Prajogo it is now entering a second phase of clinical trials. "Tested on more than 300 men as a sample," he said.

According Sugiri, approximately November, birth control pills from a natural plant extract of willow will be mass produced. So, not long bef ore the men could help his wife conceive. "November so, hopefully," he said.

Earlier, in his presentation at a number of media, researchers extract control pills inventors of willow plants, namely Bambang Prajogo to explain, in the male sperm contained three kinds of enzymes that function penetrate the egg. Efficacy of extract of leaves of willow (nee gendarussa vulgaris ) is inhibiting the enzyme so that the sperm can not penetrate the egg. That way, nothing will happen to the woman's egg fertilization and pregnancy nor automatic.

Willow leaf extract weakens the male sperm cell periodically. That is, these pills are safe because they do not spay a man permanently.

Willow is a shrub that grows in the lowlands. Willows grow to two meters tall, black-trunked or green with purple leaves that branch of shiny brown.

In the tradition of a particular tribal entity in Papua, the plant is usually used man who brought a dowry (dowry) is less than expected. Due to lack of dowry, then he is not allowed to impregnate the woman, though still allowed to marry her. Then, the leaves of willows was consumed regularly by him to prevent his wife from pregnancy, until the amount of dowry are met.

(FTR)