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- Title
Screening of Thai medicinal plants for anticandidal activity.
- Authors
Rukayadi, Yaya; Jae-Seok Shim; Jae-Kwan Hwang
- Abstract
Medicinal plants are often used in the treatment of various ailments. In this study, 23 of Thai medicinal plants were screened for their anticandidal activity against six pathogenic Candida species: C. albicans, C. glabrata, C. guilliermondii, C. krusei, C. parapsilosis and C. tropicalis. The methanol extract of Hibiscus sabdariffa L. fruit, Trigonostemon reidioides (Kurz) Craib root, Usnea siamensis Vain whole plant, Boesenbergia rotunda (L.) Mansf. rhizome, and Albizia myriophylla Benth. stem showed anticandidal activity against one or more species of Candida. Among them, A. myriophylla Benth. showed broad anticandidal activity. The susceptibility tests of A. myriophylla Benth. extract, in terms of minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC) and minimal fungicidal concentration (MFC), were performed by the broth microdilution techniques as described by the Clinical Laboratory Standard Institute. MICs of A. myriophylla Benth. extract to all Candida species was ranged 100–500 μg ml−1. The killing activity of A. myriophylla Benth. extract was fast acting against all Candida tested; the reduction in the number of CFU ml−1 was >3 log10 units (99.9%) in 2 h. This study indicates that A. myriophylla Benth. extract has considerable anticandidal activity, deserving further investigation for clinical applications for the treatment of candidiasis.
- Subjects
THAILAND; MEDICINAL plants; CANDIDIASIS; CANDIDA albicans; MEDICAL botany
- Publication
Mycoses, 2008, Vol 51, Issue 4, p308
- ISSN
0933-7407
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1439-0507.2008.01497.x