In vitro antimicrobial activity of certain medicinal plants from Eastern Ghats, India, used for skin diseases

• Published in: Journal of ethnopharmacology Vol. 90; no. 2; pp. 353 - 357
• Main Authors: Jeevan Ram, A, Bhakshu, L.Md, Venkata Raju, R.R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shannon Elsevier Ireland Ltd 01.02.2004; Elsevier
• Subjects: Anti-Infective Agents - isolation & purification; Anti-Infective Agents - therapeutic use; Antimicrobial activity; Biological and medical sciences; Crude drugs; Dermatomycoses - drug therapy; Dermatomycoses - microbiology; Ethnopharmacology; General pharmacology; Humans; India; Interviews as Topic - methods; Medical sciences; Pharmacognosy. Homeopathy. Health food; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Phytotherapy - methods; Plant Extracts - isolation & purification; Plant Extracts - therapeutic use; Plant Structures; Plants, Medicinal; Skin diseases; Skin Diseases - drug therapy; Skin Diseases - microbiology; Skin Diseases, Bacterial - drug therapy; Skin Diseases, Bacterial - microbiology; Asia; India; Crude drugs; Skin diseases; Ethnopharmacology; Antimicrobial activity; Human; Skin disease; Treatment; Folk medicine; Pharmacognosy; Crude drugs: Skin diseases; Plant origin; Biological activity; Antimicrobial agent; Medicinal plant
• ISSN: 0378-8741; 1872-7573
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2003.10.013

The paper deals with ethnopharmacological and antimicrobial properties of certain medicinal plants used by adivasi tribes of the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India. Ethanolic extracts of 23 crude drug samples used for various skin diseases were assayed for antimicrobial activity against four bacterial and one fungal human pathogens.