Evaluation of Antimicrobial Potentiality of Aqueous Ethanolic Leaf Extract of Acacia Arabica Extract (original) (raw)

INTRODUCTON Scientific communities using many efforts have been made to discover new antimicrobial compounds from various kinds of sources such as micro-organisms, animals, and plants. One of such resources is folk medicines. Systematic screening of herbal plant may result in the discovery of novel effective compounds. They using the multi-drug resistant strains of bacteria and the recent appearance of strains with reduced susceptibility to ABSTRACT The present study is the continuation of a program aimed at investigation of antimicrobial properties of Acacia arabica extract to justify the traditional claim endowed upon this herbal drug as a rasayana in Ayurveda. The antimicrobial activity of Acacia arabica was evaluated according to the disk diffusion method by using Gram positive; B. subtilius, S. aureus and S. epidermidis and Gram Negative; E. coli S. flexineri, P. aeruginosa bacteria. This study show that methanolic fruits extract of Acacia arabica Linn inhibits the growth of mi...