Abstract

The use of higher plants and their extracts to treat infectious is an age old practice in traditional Indian medicine. The aromatic and medicinal plants represent enormous reservoir of potential microbicidal compounds that could be useful alternative to synthetic microbicides and are being used to develop drugs. In the present study Toona ciliata Roemer. leaf, stem and root powder extracts were tested against ten different randomly selected bacteria by disc diffusion method. It was found the methanol extract strongly effective against all the chosen bacteria. The Minimum inhibitory concentration value ranges from 10mg/ml to 35mg/ml.

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