THE ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF SOME EXTRACTS OF BASIL AND GINGER
Journal Title: Current Trends in Natural Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 10
Abstract
Plants are more and more used in prophylaxis and therapeutics of many diseases, because they are reasonable alternative to synthetic drugs. The low cost of herbal medicine and the less number of side effects than synthetic drugs are the most important advantages for treatments in some common and primary symptoms of multiple diseases. Despite the conventional drugs rapid effects in acute diseases, the exploration of plants antimicrobial potential is a better choice in medicine. In this study the antimicrobial effects of essential oils, ethanolic, methanolic and aqueous extracts against three bacterial strains were tested. The essential oils and the extracts were gained from two plants often used in cookery, basil and ginger. The extracts were obtained in certain condition and variants. The most obvious effect was observed for essential oils because of their concentration. The antimicrobial effect of alcoholic extracts was more obvious after concentration by evaporation and the aqueous extracts had quite low antimicrobial effect.
Authors and Affiliations
Ionica Deliu, Cristina Maria Teaşă, Carmen Maria Nedelcu
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