Abstract

EVALUATION OF ANTI MICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF SIDDHA POLYHERBAL FORMULATION- KARISALAI MATHIRAI

A. Karthick* and A. Manoharan

Abstract

Our environment is blessed with lot of herbs, many of them having medicinal value. The traditional system of medicine makes use of such medicinal herbs showing their potency in treatment of various diseases. One such traditional system in India is the Siddha system of medicine, which insists treatment with medicinal plants on its first priority Karisalai mathirai, a siddha polyherbal formulation was evaluated for its antimicrobial action against several bacterial species name Pseudomonus aeruginosa, E.coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis,Proteus vulgaris and Fungal species name Aspergillus flavus and Candida albicans.

Keywords: Karisalai mathirai, antimicrobial, zone of inhibition.