Seed at the Interface of Food and Medicine: Effect of Extracts on Some Reproductive Parameters, Hepatic and Renal Histology.

The lipid-rich Seed of has been promoted as an effective water clarifier. Aside its vital nutritional application as an emerging food additive, the seed has continued to gain a wider acceptance in various global ethnomedicines for managing several communicable and lifestyle diseases, howbeit, its potential toxic effect, particularly on fertility and pregnancy outcomes has remained uninvestigated; the effect of seed (MOSE) aqueous-methanol extracts on fertility and pregnancy outcome, was investigated using female Wistar rats that were divided into 50, 100, 300 and 500 mg per kilogram body weight. Group six was given seed treated water ( group).