Antibacterial activity of some folklore medicinal plants from South India.

Screening of Various Solvent Extracts of Gymnema sylvestre R.Br. Leaf for Antibacterial Activity

INTRODUCTION Plants have always played an important role for mankind especially as food and medicine. In the last few decades, there has been an exponential growth in the field of herbal medicine due to failure of modern medicine in providing effective treatment for chronic diseases and emergence of multidrugresistant bacteria. Various extracts from traditional medicinal plants with folklore re...

Antibacterial Activity of Some Folklore Medicinal Plants Used by Bakhtiari Tribal in Southwest Iran

Antibacterial Activity of Medicinal Plants Against Pathogens causing Complicated Urinary Tract Infections

Seventeen Indian folklore medicinal plants were investigated to evaluate antibacterial activity of aqueous, ethanol and acetone extracts against 66 multidrug resistant isolates of major urinary tract pathogens (Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterococcus faecalis) by disc diffusion method. Ethanol extract of Zingiber officinale and Punica granatum showed str...

Evaluation of Antimicrobial Activity of Alcoholic and Aqueous Extracts of Five Plants used in Traditional Medicine in North India

The alcoholic and aqueous extracts of five medicinal plants (Cassia fistula, Albizia lebbeck, Cassia occidentalis , Sphaeranthus indicus and Vitex nigundo) collected from Uttarakhand, North India; were evaluated for antibacterial activity by Agar diffusion method against medically important bacteria viz. B. subtilis, K. pneumonia, E. coli, Enterobacter aerogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, S. aure...

Antibacterial activity of South African plants used for medicinal purposes.

Crude extracts from 21 South African medicinal plants, traditionally used for ailments of an infectious or septic nature, were screened for in vitro antibacterial activity using the agar diffusion and dilution methods. Almost all the activity exhibited was against Gram-positive bacteria, with 12 of the 21 plant species tested showing some activity against Bacillus subtilis. Only the Warburgia s...