A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ANTIBACTERIAL POTENTIAL OF DIFFERENT LEAF EXTRACTS OF INDIAN SACRED TREES
Amudha Selvi Muniyan and Ananthan Anuswedha*
ABSTRACT
Medicinal plants are precious and very important sources of natural products for the health of human beings. Natural products such as plant extracts either as pure compounds or as standardised extracts provide unlimited opportunities for new drug discoveries. In the present study, an attempt has been made to analyse and compare the antibacterial efficacy of solvent leaf crude extracts of Indian sacred trees viz., Aegle marmelous Linn. Correa., Feronia elephantum Linn., Ficus bengalensis Linn., Ficus religiosa Linn., and Mimusops elengi Linn.,. These leaf extracts were screened using agar disc diffusion method and the extracts which showed the highest activity were analysed using microbroth dilution assay to determine minimum inhibitory concentration. Leaf extracts of Ficus bengalensis Linn. showed good antibacterial activity against most of the strains tested at a concentration of 100mg/ml. Therefore, these medicinal trees should be conserved and explored for drug development properties.
Keywords: medicinal plants, antibacterial, drug discovery.
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