Antioxidant and antibacterial study on Coleus aromaticus and Lawsonia inermis

Abstract

The Indian traditional medicine has a lot of potentiality to cure many human infections by using medicinal plants like Coleus aromaticus and Lawsonia inermis. For the present study these two  plants were screened to detect the presence of the active metabolites  like alkaloids, sugar, saponin, aminoacids, tannin and glycosides  . The antimicrobial activity of Coleus aromaticus and Lawsonia inermis was analysed against different pathogens namely Aeromonas hydrophilia, Eschericia coli, Edverchila tarda, Enterobacter aerogens, flavobacterium by using alcoholic and water extracts. The results  showed that the alcoholic extracts   were taken in the concentrations 75 and 100 µg /ml of both the plants were effective in antimicrobial activity among these  two plants Lawsonia inermis showed better activity.