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Of Antimicrobial Activity in Various Dried Extracts of Gnaphalium Polycaulon, Indian Folkloric Medicinal Plant ISSN 2395-3411 Available online at www.ijpacr.com 227 ____________________________________________________________Research Article Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) of antimicrobial activity in various dried extracts of Gnaphalium polycaulon, Indian folkloric medicinal plant K. Shanmugapriya*, T. Senthil Murugan and Tha Thayumanavan School of Biotechnology, Dr. G. R. Damodaran College of Science, Coimbatore - 641014, Tamil Nadu, India. __________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT Objective: Medicinal plants have been identified and used throughout human history. The aim of the current study was designed to determine MIC values for its antimicrobial analysis of the different dried parts of G. polycaulon in all solvents. Methods: The selected plant was collected and coarsely powdered for organic solvent extraction using Soxhlet’s method. Then all the extracts obtained were subjected for analysis of antimicrobial properties against bacteria and fungal cultures by standard procedure. Results: All extracts showed MIC values at 125 µg/ml, determined high antimicrobial activity. Conclusions: In the current investigation, we have reported major secondary metabolites of G. polycaulon that might responsible for its antimicrobial effect against all the test bacteria and fungi. Keywords: Medicinal plant, antibacterial, antifungal, MIC, bacteria, and fungi. INTRODUCTION biological diversity conservation4 Medicinal plants play a significant role in (Shanmugapriya and Thayumanavan, 2016). providing primary health care services. The study of traditional human uses of plants, is Medicinal plants have been identified and used recognized as an effective way to discover throughout human history1 (Borkataky et al., future medicines 5 (Sofowora, 1993). In 2001, 2013). Medicinal and aromatic plants are used researchers identified 122 compounds used in widely in the later years of the 21st century. It modern medicine which were derived from constitute the backbone of traditional medicine traditional plant sources; 80% of these have had practices. The importance of traditional medicine a traditional use identical or related to the (TM) as a source of primary healthcare was first current use of the active elements of the officially recognized by the World Health medicinal plant (Shanmugapriya and Organization (1991) by Traditional Medicine Thayumanavan, 2015). Program. Researchers are increasingly turning The World Health Organization (WHO) their attention to herbal products, looking for estimates that 80 percent of the population of new leads to investigate phytochemical some Asian and African countries presently use investigation and to develop better drugs against herbal medicine for some aspect of primary Oxidative damage of cells 2 (Mowobi et al., health care. In fact, according to the World 2016). Health Organization, approximately 25% of India is the largest producer of medicinal herbs modern drugs used in the United States have and is appropriately called the botanical garden been derived from plants 7 (Sadasivam and of the world 3 (Saiba et al., 2013). Ethnobotany Manickam, 1996). is the scientific study of relationship that exists Plants have always been the principal source of between people and plants. It interface between drugs for the prevention and treatment of indigenous people and their wild exploit of plants disease and also for the production of some around them, which is a significant aspect of drugs currently used in modern medicine. Many reports stated that Asteraceae family is International Journal of Pharma And Chemical Research I Volume 3 I Issue 2 I Apr – Jun I 2017 ISSN 2395-3411 Available online at www.ijpacr.com 228 considered as abundant flowering plants with screening the MIC values for its antimicrobial many therapeutic properties and reported as study. folkloric medicinal plants 8 (Li et al., 2015). Gnaphalium polycaulon is a genus of flowering Antimicrobial activity plants in the Asteraceae family of composite One of the standard assay methods for testing type, worldwide distribution are said to have antimicrobial activity is the Kirby-Bauer method, anti-inflammatory 9 (Shanmugapriya et al., also referred to as the disc diffusion method. A 2014), antioxidant, astringent, and antiseptic Kirby-Bauer technique was used to screening properties and are often prescribed as an herbal the antimicrobial activity in different solvents of supplement for colds 10 (Abid, and Qaiser, G. polycaulon plant parts 16 [Shanmugapriya et 2008), flu, burns 11 (Acharya, 2011), wounds 12 al., 2011]. The bacterial cultures of Gram (Uniyal and Shiva, 2005) and congestion. There positive (Listeria monocytogenes) and Gram is a urgent need to discover new antimicrobial negative (Flavobacterium sp., Salmonella compounds for new and reemerging infectious typhimurium, Yersinia enterocolitica) bacteria; diseases 13 (Bisht and Purohit, 2010). the fungal cultures of Aspergillus flavus, and Researchers are increasingly turning their Pencillium notatum were used to test the MIC attention to folk medicine looking for new leads values for its antimicrobial activity. to develop better drugs as well as viral and microbial infections 14 (Ibarra et al., 2001). Preparation of cultures Evidently, there are not sufficient scientific To prepare the bacterial and fungal inoculums studies that confirm the antimicrobial properties from each of the microorganisms, a loopful of of this plant. This study focused on this each test organisms was taken and medicinal plant into screening its antimicrobial subsequently sub-cultured into separate test activity against selected microorganisms by its tubes containing nutrient agar broth. Then the MIC values that cause most common cases of tubes were subjected to incubation for 24 h at 37 infectious diseases of tribal communities in ºC, the obtained broth with microorganisms was South India. standardized to have a uniform population density of microorganisms in microbial culture MATERIALS AND METHODS laboratory. Collection of plant material The fresh leaves, stem and flower of G. Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) polycaulon were collected from Kotagiri in Organisms were subcultured on nutrient agar, Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu and dried. The plant followed by incubation for 24 h at 37 ºC. parts were selected on the basis of the Inoculum was prepared by transferring several knowledge on their use in different medicine colonies of microorganisms to sterile nutrient system of health care and identified as broth 17 [Upadhay et al., 1996]. The suspensions Gnaphalium polycaulon Pers. in the Botanical were mixed for 15 seconds and incubated for Survey of India, Coimbatore and herbarium 24h at 37 ºC. Required volume of suspension specimen is authenticated and incorporated in culture was diluted to match the turbidity of 0.5 the Madras Herbarium. Mc Farland standards (1.5 x 108 CFU/mL). MIC was considered the lowest concentration of the Preparation of extracts sample that prevented visible growth. All The plant materials were washed, air dried and samples were examined in triplicates manner. then coarsely powdered. Forty grams of the Samples were prepared in dimethyl sulphoxide powdered leaf, stem and flower samples were at the concentration of 2 mg/ml. A series of 15 extracted sequentially using Soxhlet’s method tubes were filled with 0.5 ml of sterilized nutrient for 72 h at a temperature not exceeding the broth. Sequentially, 2-14 test tubes received an boiling point of the solvent into 250 ml of additional 0.5 ml of the sample serially diluted to Aqueous, ethanol and hexane for extract create a concentration sequence from 500-0.06 preparation 15 (Harborne, 1998). Resulting μg. The first tube served as the control. All the extracts was concentrated in vacuum to dryness tubes received 0.5 ml of inoculum. The tubes using a Rotary evaporator. Each powder was were vortexed well and incubated for 24 h at 37 weighed and dissolved in the respective ºC. The resulting turbidity was observed, and solvents used for extraction separately and after 24 h MIC was determined to be where stored at 4 ºC. These extracts were subjected to growth was no longer visible by assessment of turbidity by optical density readings at 600 nm. International Journal of Pharma And Chemical Research I Volume 3 I Issue 2 I Apr – Jun I 2017 ISSN 2395-3411 Available online at www.ijpacr.com 229 RESULT AND DISCUSSION values. Results were compared with the Medicinal plants have several biological standard drugs such as gentamycin and activities. In recent times, ethno medical and Nystatin (10 µg/disc) for bacterial and fungal traditional pharmacological approaches are cultures. Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations achieving great appreciation in modern (MIC) of crude plant extracts was determined. medicine, based on an ethnomedicinal origin 5 The results showed high resistant antimicrobial [Sofowora, 1993]. activity. Antimicrobial properties of several plant extracts MICs of active extracts ranged from 500-0.06 have been recognized mainly due to the μg/mL against test bacterial and fungal cultures secondary metabolites. Pharmaceutical and were tabulated in Table 1. All extracts (leaf, scientific communities have the attention of the stem and flower) of G. polycaulon tested in medicinal plants to validate the claims of their present study had specific potential antimicrobial biological activity. activity against the reference (standard) strains. Antimicrobial activity in all solvents of leaf, stem The MIC values were evaluated and
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