Anti Bacterial Activity of Dashapushpa Ghritham

Abstract

Dashapushpam is a group of ten sacred plants famous for its cultural and medicinal properties and it is used by the people of Kerala, specially during the monsoon season. This study is to demonstrate the anti bacterial activity of the ten herbs when used as a drug called dashapushpa ghritham. The anti bacterial activity was evaluated against the bacterial strains pseudomonas aerugenosa and bacillus cereus by agar-gel diffusion method. All the extract showed various level of activity for this test organisms and their activity is compared with the standard antibiotic. This study shows that the drug has significant activity than the base and individual plant extract. This result encourages the studies for the significant usage of the ten herbs in various medicines used as anti-infective agent.