The dichloromethane extract of Plectranthus ornatus Codd., a tradicional medicinal plant, showed antibiotic activity with minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of 0.4 mg.mL-1 and 100 percent of biofilm inhibition against Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from animals with mastitis infections. Based on these antibacterial activities, in addition to ethnopharmacological reports from ...

This paper is concerned with the nature of the hemolytic material which occurs in certain tumors, and particularly with the question whether it dif fers from the hemolytic material found in many normal tissues. The latter, at least in one of its forms, has been shown to have the characteristics of soaps and of lysolecithin-like substances more or less loosely combined with inhibitory material i...

In this study, Tithonia diversifolia Helms. (A Gray), Aloe secundiflora (Miller) and Azadirachta indica (A. Juss) plant extracts were used to make herbal soaps while Thevetia peruviana (Schum) seed oil was used to make a herbal lotion for skincare. The soaps were tested for the growth inhibition of Escherichia coli, and Candida albicans. The lotion was evaluated against Staphylococcus aureus an...

Bacterial decomposition of butterfish and smelts in small sealed jars containing seawater and other solutions, for periods ranging from 65 to 205 days, results in a large increase in concentrations of dissolved bicarbonate, carbonate, and ammonia (plus volatile amines). Accompanying this is a rise in pH and the precipitation of Ca(++) ion from solution. The Ca(++) is not precipitated as CaCO(3)...

Ox bile contains the soaps of unsaturated higher fatty acids not only with one, but also with two and more than two double bonds, in a dilution of about 1:600. These substances, when isolated from bile, exert an antiseptic action on the pneumococcus in a dilution of approximately 1:50,000 and kill the organism in a dilution of 1:5000 in approximately 1 hour. As their action is, then, about 100 ...