ANTI MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES OF COLEUS AROMATICUS AND ITS USES

Author (s) : D.Jeevithra , T.Devi & Dr.Pazhaniraj, S.Menaga

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Abstract :
Human beings have been dependent on plants for their health care needs since the beginning of civilization. Many secondary metabolites of plant are commercially important and find use in a number of pharmaceutical products. Different plant parts are used for medicinal purposes i.e., bulb, gel, leaves, roots, barks, peels etc. C. aromaticus appears as a green, perennial, shrub having heart shaped, and leathery leaves with scalloped edges. Many chemical constituents have been isolated from C. aromaticus including 76 volatiles and 30 nonvolatilecompounds. In indigenous system of medicine, Ayurveda, C. aromaticus is usedagainst various disorders such as severe bronchitis, asthma,diarrhoea, epilepsy, renal and vesicle calculi, fever, common cold, cough, headache, indigestion, urinary diseases, vaginal discharges, colic, dyspepsia, convulsions, stimulates the functions of liver, indicated in kidney and bladder stones, dysentery, cholera, bilious affections, poisonous bites and vitiated conditions of Kapha and Vata Antibacterial activity of ethanol and hot water leaf extracts of C. aromaticus against human pathogenicbacteria: Staph. aureus, Bacillus subtilis, B. cereus, E. coli, and Salmonella enteritidis was studied following disc diffusion method. Both extracts showed potent antibacterial activity, of which the ethanol extract demonstrated the strongest antibacterial activity.

Keywords : Staph. aureus, Bacillus subtilis, C. aromaticus, bladder stones, dysentery, cholera, bilious affections

Conference Date : 30/08/2019

Pages : 351

Paper ID : 19342