PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON PHYTOCHEMICALS AND ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF METHANOLIC EXTRACT OF Toddalia asiatica.L Var Floribunda PRAVEENA A AND SURIYAVATHANA M

Medicinal plants acts as a raw material base for the elaboration of more complex semi-synthetic chemical compounds. India is a home to a variety of traditional medicine systems that relay to a very large extent on native plant species for their raw drug materials. Therefore, now there is a need to look back towards the traditional medicine which can serve as novel therapeutics. Toddalia asiatica. L Var Floribunda, has been in folklore use in India and China from 18th century. Since, this plant possess many medicinal properties, the present study was designed to evaluate the phytochemicals and the antimicrobial activity of the methanolic stem extract of Toddalia asiatica.L. The methanolic extract of the stem was subjected to microbiological tests to ascertain their antimicrobial activity against various microorganisms like Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumonia, E.coli, Proteus vulgaris, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus subtilis and fungi viz. Fusarium oxysporum, Aspergillus flavus, Pencillium sp and Candida albicans. The extract showed maximum activity against the microorganism. The results of the above study conclusively validate the phytochemical treasures and its anti microbial components indulged in Toddalia asiatica L Var Floribunda.