It was not until the 19th century and the rapid development of organic chemistry and pharmacology, that. Active extracts were fractionated for further antimicrobial evaluation. Satish 1department of studies in applied botany and biotechnology, university of mysore, manasagangotri, mysore570 006 2herbal drug technology laboratory, department of studies in microbiology. Schulz, which form part of the local pharmacopoeia of mauritius. Antimicrobial properties of medicinal plants are being increasingly reported from different parts of the world. Antimicrobial activity of medicinal plant for oral health. Bacillus cereus, staphylococcus aureus, escherichia coli, pseudomonas aeruginosa, fungi. The increased resistance of microorganisms to the currently used antimicrobials has lead to the evaluation of other agents that might have antimicrobial activity. Antibacterial activity of plant extracts 247 brazilian journal of microbiology 2000 31. We have colleted four medicinally important medicinal plants such as acalypha indica, cassia auriculata, eclipta alba and phyllanthus niruri for antimicrobial studies the experiment carried out in the selected medicinal plants leaves and roots. The result showed potential antibacterial effects of o. Bromelain a digestive enzyme extracted from the pineapple plant has been used for centuries as a folk remedy for digestive problems, and to promote wound healing. Aqueous and ethanol extracts from these plants parts were comparatively screened for phytochemicals and in vitro antimicrobial activity.
Antimicrobial activity of medicinal plants against human pathogenic bacteria 657 inflammatory properties of plants mahesh and satish, 2008. The results of this study showed that ethanolic extracts used against e. Medicinal plants play great roles in the treatment of skin and wound infections. Medicinal properties, pharmacological activities, antimicrobial medicinal plants, microbial resistance, antibiotics.
The effect of antimicrobial activity of teucrium polium on. Antimicrobial activity of some plant extracts against. Some studies investigate the effect of medicinal plants as antibacterial agents in dentistry 4, 5, while herbal extracts are widely used in oral hygiene products as well. Plants in traditional healthcare services in west africa were selected based on ethnobotanical data for this study. Introduction knowledge of herbs has been handed down from generation to generation for. Received 25 april 2008 received in revised form 26 may 2008 accepted 30 may 2008 available online. Antimicrobial activity of four medicinal plants used by sudanese traditional medicine abd alfatah abd alla 1, christina y. Antimicrobial activity and phytochemical analysis of. The antibacterial effect of some medicinal plant extracts. Antibacterial activity of some medicinal plants against selected. In the current study, we investigated the antimicrobial activities of two endemic plants, antidesma madagascariense lam. A study of the medicinal plants used by the marakwet community in kenya a study of the medicinal plants used by the marakwet.
Antimicrobial activity of selected medicinal plants. Antimicrobial activity of selected medicinal plants against some selected human pathogenic bacteria. The present study was to evaluate the in vitro antibacterial activity, and thinlayer chromatography tlc studies from the petals of four different indian medicinal plants punica granatum, hibiscus rosasinensis, cassia auriculata, and. The screening of plant extracts and plant products for antimicrobial activity has shown that higher plants represent a. Antimicrobial plants the vast majority of antibiotics used in modern medicine are or have been produced by microorganisms, yeasts or fungi, which belong to the vegetable kingdom. Pdf antibacterial activity of important medicinal plants on human. Antimicrobial activities and phytochemical profiles of. Over the years, the use of medicinal plants have been a source of economic value to many parts of the world.
Medicinal plants are known to harbor potential endophytic microbes, due to their bioactive compounds. Antimicrobial activity and phytochemical analysis of selected indian folk medicinal plants mohamed sham shihabudeen. Page 7 traditional and medicinal uses of carica papaya aravind. Antibacterial and phytochemical studies on twelve species. Antimicrobial activity of south african medicinal plants s. Studies of antimicrobial properties of different leaf.
Studies of the in vitro anticancer, antimicrobial and antioxidant potentials of selected yemeni medicinal plants from the island soqotra. Phytochemical analysis of traditional medicinal plants and. Traditionally, crude plant extracts are used as herbal medicine for the treatment of human infectious diseases. Antimicrobial assay was done by disc diffusion and poisons plate method nccls, 1993, awoyinka et al. Search for new antibacterial agents should be continued by screening many plant families. The objectives of the study were to screen out selected medicinal plants of kohat for their antimicrobial activities. The test quantities of specific extracts dissolved, depending upon the solubility of the extracts. Yet a scientific study of plants to determine their antimicrobial active compounds is a comparatively new field.
Evaluation of antimicrobial activity of different solvent. Antibacterial and antifungal activities from leaf extracts. Malvaceae against cotrimoxazolresistant bacteria strains. A study of antimicrobial activity of few medicinal herbs parastoo karimi alavijeh, parisa karimi alavijeh and devindra sharma j. Hence, the antimicrobial activity of ames showed broad spectrum potential as the active compounds are concentrated more in me fraction than in pe and dcm fractions which supports phytochemical screening. The results are discussed with the available literature. Many focus on determining the antimicrobial activity of plant extracts found in folk medicine, essential oils or isolated compounds such as alkaloids, flavonoids. Medicinal plants are assuming widespread use in the primary health care of individuals and communities.
Antimicrobial activity of polyphenolrich fractions from sida alba l. Antibacterial active compounds isolated from higher plants appear to be one of the most important alternative approaches to contain antibiotic resistance and the management of disease. Higher plants mainly produce antimicrobials as a defense mechanism against infections or these substances are constituents of cellular metabolism. Garlic medicinal usage of garlic dates back to ancient egypt. Arts college, sivagangai 630 561, tamilnadu, india. Materials and methodology place of work staphylococcus aureus the experiments pertaining to the study were carried. The traditional medicinal methods, specially the use of medicinal plants, still play a vital role to cover the basic health needs in the developing countries.
Conclusion the results clearly indicated that scientific studies carried out on these medicinal plants, possessing, and. Pdf studies of the in vitro anticancer, antimicrobial. To compare the phytochemical present in these medicinal plants. Antimicrobial activity and phytochemical screening of. Frontiers antimicrobial activity of medicinal plants. The present study was aimed at to investigate the antibacterial.
Review antimicrobial activity of south african medicinal. Some common spices and plants with antimicrobial and. Antimicrobial activities were detected in the 80% ethanolic extract of achyranthes aspera, ficus glomerata, leucas aspera, thespesia populnea and zizyphus jujube against escherichia coli, klebsiella pneumoniae and salmonella typhi. Over the next few years, the study of medicinal plants as antimicrobial agents should be focused in part on ascertaining specific information about the plant s antimicrobial activity, avoiding studies in which researchers use this criterion merely as a complement to a phytochemical study. Phytochemical and antimicrobial screening of medicinal. This study was aimed to evaluate the in vitro antibacterial activity of crude methanolic extracts of nine medicinal plants. Antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxicity studies of. In addition, sher, 2009, venkatesan and karrunakaran, 2010, pirbalouti et al. Studies have shown that garlic is an effective antiviral herb when used against the common flu virus as well as common bacteria such as bacillus, streptococcus, and.
Medicinal plants and antimicrobial activity sciencedirect. Antimicrobial activity of some indian medicinal plants ncbi. The world health organization estimates that plant extract or their active constituents are used as folk medicine in traditional therapies of 80% of the worlds population. Antimicrobial activity of four medicinal plants used by. To look for the antimicrobial activity of various parts of the selected plants. Antimicrobial activity of asparagus racemosus willd. A wide range of medicinal plants extracts are used to treat several infections as they have potential antimicrobial activity.
In the last decades a plenty of research has been done to evaluate antimicrobial effect of herbs and medicinal plant for maintaining oral hygiene. Antibacterial activity, medicinal plants, agar well diffusion method. Recent work revealed the potential of several herbs as sources of drugs iwu, 2002. Antimicrobial activity of medicinal plants against human. Antimicrobial activity and probable mechanisms of action. Chloroform, butanol, ethyl acetate and nhexane extracts of these plants were used for antimicrobial screening. Pdf antimicrobial activity of some medicinal plant. Antimicrobial activity of selected medicinal plants against. Preliminary phytochemical screening, antibacterial and antifungal potential of four medicinal plants was the aim of our study. Although a certain number of extracts exhibited good antibacterialpotency,incontrasttoourexpectation,alimited antibacterial potency. Antimicrobial activity of some important medicinal plant against plant and human pathogens 12b. In this study, antimicrobial activities of four traditional medicinal plants from nepal were assessed by cold percolation method. Ishak2, saad mohammed hussien ayoub3 1department of chemistry, college of applied and industrial science, university of bahri, khartoum, sudan.
Medicinal plants, traditional uses, phytochemical effects, antimicrobial activity. Antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxicity studies of medicinal plants used in the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases tshikalange t e, mamba p, adebayo s a department of plant and soil sciences, university of pretoria, p bag x20, hatfield 0028 available online. Introduction medicinal plants are abundant source of antimicrobial molecules. Pdf medicinal plants and antimicrobial activity researchgate. Antimicrobial studies on selected medicinal plants, erode. In vitro antibacterial activity of selected medicinal. The antimicrobial activity of five medicinal plants extracts aqueous and ethanol. A study of antimicrobial activity of few medicinal herbs imedpub. In vitro antimicrobial activity of some medicinal plants.
D, kavitha thirumurugan structural biology lab, center for bio medical research, school of bio sciences technology, vit university, vellore 632 004, tamil nadu, south india. It contains many compounds that experts believe offer antiviral, antimicrobial, and antibacterial benefits. Journal of medicinal plants studies from synthetic sources 12. Plants are rich in a wide variety of secondary metabolites, such as tannins, terpenoids, alkaloids, and flavonoids, which have been found in vitro to have antimicrobial properties. The study will also confirm if there is a biological basis to the claim that the ethnomedicinal plant has useful medicinal purposes cowan, 1999. Antimicrobial activity of selected medicinal plants against some selected human pathogenic bacteria selvamohan t. Antimicrobial activity of some indian medicinal plants. In some studies on mouthwashes, chlorhexidine is used as a positive control to compare the efficacy of other products. Some studies reported the antimicrobial property of a.
External infections involving the skin and wound are the most frequent complications affecting humans and animals. Shibila selva kishore research centre, department of zoology, r. In recent years, a large number of plant products have been investigated for their antimicrobial properties against bacteria and fungi. Some common spices and plants with antimicrobial and therapeutic properties this is a synopsis of unrefereed information gleaned from various web resources. A study of antimicrobial activity of few medicinal herbs. Department of pharmacy and pharmacology, faculty of health sciences, university of the witwatersrand, 7 york road, parktown 2193, south africa article info article history. Qualitative phytochemical screening of these plants confirmed the presence of various phytochemicals like flavonoids, steroids, terpenoids, saponins, phenols, tannins and anthroquinones gave the plant extracts its. Antimicrobial activity of some important medicinal plant.
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