ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF LEUCAS CEPHALOTES SPRENG
AbstractMedicinal plants are of important therapeutic aid for various treatments. Leucas cephalotes Spreng. up in cultivated fields as a weed, especially after a period of rain. In the present study the dried plant stems powder of Leucas cephalotes Spreng. was taken and subjected to extraction with ethanol and aqueous extraction was done on the marc left after ethanolic extraction. The antimicrobial activity in terms of zone of inhibition and minimum inhibitory concentration of different extracts of Leucas cephalotes Spreng.. was tested against three bacterial strains viz. Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholera and two fungal strains viz. Candida albicans, Aspergillus niger. The zone of inhibition was determined for these pathogenic microorganism by using specific standards and respective controls for determining Minimum inhibitory Concentration (MIC). The ethanolic extract showed more activity against S. aureus and others bacterial/fungals strains than the aqueous extract. It was concluded that the ethanolic extract of the plant Leucas cephalotes Spreng. was more active against all the test strains than the aqueous extract
Article Information
27
2984-89
425
1614
English
IJPSR
Pankaj Jangra, Joginder Singh and Sumitra Singh*
Department of Pharmaceutical Science, Guru Jambheswar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India
pankajjangra33@gmail.com
20 January, 2016
22 March, 2016
15 May, 2016
10.13040/IJPSR.0975-8232.7(6).2984-89
01 July 2016
Download