Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan Indonesia Indonesian Journal of Medicine and Health Journal homepage : www.journal.uii.ac.id/index.php/JKKI Chemical compounds and antibacterial activity of Garcinia dulcis (Roxb)kurz. Hady Anshory Tamhid*1 1Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Islam Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Article Review ABSTRACT ARTICLE INFO Garcinia dulcis is a medicinal plant used traditionally to treat various Keywords: diseases including infections of wounds and ulcers. The antibacterial Garcinia dulcis, activity of this plant has also been widely reported, but the most potent antibacterial, compounds as an antibacterial agent are not widely reported, even chemical compounds, xanthones, though the compounds contained in this plant is well known. This paper reviews the compounds contained in G. dulcis plants and their potential benzophenone as antibacterial agents. Each part of this plant, such as leaves, fruits, *Correspondingflavonoids, author:
[email protected] are potential antibacterial agents. Here are described the compounds DOI : 10.20885/JKKI.Vol10.Iss1.art11 flowers, seeds, stems, and roots, contains secondary metabolites which History: contained in each part of the plant, such as xanthones, the most Received: February 4, 2019 Accepted: April 4, 2019 triterpenoid. Their antibacterial activity is also described, especially those Online: April 30, 2019 thatdominant have strong compounds, activity then against flavonoids, bacteria. benzophenones, The molecular structure chromones, and and the Copyright @2019 Authors. possibilities of how the antibacterial mechanism are also discussed. Eleven This is an open access article compounds that have the potential to be used as antibacterial agents for distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons At- tribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (54) are compounds that have the most vigorous activity against S.