ANTIBACTERIAL, ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY AND PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF SANSEVIVERIA ROXBURGHIANA ROOT

ABSTRACT

                Medicinal plants play an important role in the discovery of novel drugs used in modern medicine. The medicinal plant of Sanseviveria roxburghiana root (Tamil name – Marul kizhangu) possesses the wide range of medicinal properties, which were confirmed through literature reviews. However, there are no reports on Sanseviveria roxburghiana roots for anti-microbial and antifungal studies. Present study was to determine the Sanseviveria roxburghiana roots have any antimicrobial and antifungal activity's also phytochemical constituents responsible for said activities. The root of Sanseviveria roxburghiana juice obtained by shoot is cut and the sap is collected by blending followed on filtration. The collected sap was tested the antimicrobial, antifungal activities and the presence of chemical constituents by preliminary phytochemical analysis according to the literature.  The antimicrobial susceptibility studies conducted against gram (-) bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, and Pseudomonas auroginosa, gram (+) bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus faecalis and fungi such as Aspergillus niger and Candida albicans. This result support the medicinal use of the root, and in addition, unveils the possibility of its act as an antimicrobial agent also as a potential source of food nutrients and nutraceuticals but doses not having antifungal activities. However further studies need to isolate the active constituents <a href="http://www.aucheaptrx.com/">cheap trx for sale</a> from the sap and to study the antimicrobial activity in cellular level.

Keywords: Sanseviveria roxburghiana, E. coli, S. aures, P. aeruginosa, K. pneumona, Streptococcus faecalis, Aspirgillus niger,Candidaalbicans,  Antimicrobial, antifungal activities.