DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF POLYHERBAL DERMAL FORMULATION
Journal Title: International Journal of Pharmacognosy - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
The plants are used to treat skin infection as well as cuts, burn, dermatophytes and an infectious disease is common in traditional medicine. The development of new polyherbal dermal formulation treat against resistant pathogens is increasing interest. Therefore, the aqueous, methanolic extracts from different parts of four medicinal plants used locally in folk medicine were evaluated for wound healing, antimicrobial activity. Different types of plant aqueous extract potential to treat cuts, wounds, fungal infection without any adverse effect of plant extract. It was found that most plant extracts studied had antibacterial and antifungal activities. The extract of showed significant activity against all tested bacteria and showed higher anti fungal activity against E. coli.
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Vishal H. Thorat et al.
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