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- Title
STUDIES ON THE PHYTOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENT AND ANTIMICROBIAL POTENTIAL OF AN IMPORTANT MEDICINAL PLANTS: GYMNEMA SYLVESTRE (RETZ.) R. BR. EX SM.
- Authors
Chauhan, Jyoti; Jain, D. K.
- Abstract
The traditional system of medicine utilizes the potentiality of herbal medicinal plants as these are served as reservoir pool of various herbal drugs and due to this, Ayurveda (the oldest medicinal system) is accepted globally. The growth of herbal industrial sector completely depends on the medicinal plants which are served as potent source of the medicinal drugs. Since the prehistoric time these medicinal plants are used as the source of valuable drugs. The plant based therapeutic agents are safe and have no side effect, hence widely used as medicinal drugs. The use of these herbal medicines gaining momentum throughout the world. These are the phytochemicals on which medicinal property of plant depends and they also plays active role in the rejuvenation of body system. These bioactive compounds of the medicinal plants are the source of medicinal drugs. Due to bacterial and fungal infection many types of disease are created and agricultural sector adversely affected. Various herbal plants has the antimicrobial properties. Therefore the present investigation is focused on the evaluation of antimicrobial action of Gymnema sylvestre plant. It was found that leaf extract of this plant have the strong antibacterial properties against the test bacterial strain. It was also observed that leaf extract of this plant inhibited the conidial germination of all the test fungal pathogens. Different types of secondary metabolites are obtained from the leaf extract that served as potent tool against bacterial and fungal pathogens.
- Subjects
MEDICINAL plants; ANTI-infective agents; PHYTOCHEMICALS; GYMNEMA; PATHOGENIC fungi
- Publication
Plant Archives (09725210), 2020, Vol 20, Issue 1, p1953
- ISSN
0972-5210
- Publication type
Article