“…Linnv, Ipomoea sepiaria Roxb., Vernonia cinerea L [10,11,12,13,14]. They have various medicinal properties including anti-diabetic, anti-cancer, anti-tumor, hepatoprotective, immunomodulatory, anti-diarrheal, anti-helminthic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anti-microbial activity [15,16,17,18].The different properties of dashapushpam plants are shown in table 1 [19,20,21,22].The present study is to investigate the anti bacterial activity of these plants extract and the drug dashapushpa ghritham when tested against gram positive and gram negative bacteria [23,24,25]. Dashapushpa ghritham is a drug formulation from an ancient ayurvedic text "visha vaidhya jyostnika".…”