PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING AND IN VITRO ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF BUTEA MONOSPERMA (L) BARK ETHANOLIC AND AQUEOUS EXTRACT

摘要

Infectious diseases are the second leading cause of death worldwide. Treatment of infections continues to be problematic in modern time because of the severe side effects of some drugs and the growing resistance to antimicrobial agents. Butea monosperma (L) bark ethanolic and aqueous extract has shown good efficacy against Bacillus cereus. Pseudomonas aerugenosa and Escherichia Coli in concentration dependent manner which were grown on MH- Agar medium. 1000mg/ml has shown better zone of inhibition (ZOI) in all the cases of above micro organisms