Screening of Antibacterial Potential and Phytochemical Analysis of Medicinal Plant Barleria Prionitis

Abstract

Medicinal and healing proper- ties of herbs are closely related to their chemical components which are classified into some major groups like alkaloids, phenols, terpenoids, steroids, saponins, tannins etc. and getting these chemicals out into the herbal remedy depends upon the solubility of these compounds in various solvents. In the present study aqueous ethanol diethyl ether acetone and methanol extracts of Barleria prionitis leaves were investigated for phyto-chemical and anti-microbial activity. The micro-organisms employed were Staphylococcus aureus Escherichia coli,and Pseudomonas, aeruginosa and Bacillus subtilis. The susceptibility of bacterial strains against the all extracts was determined using the disk diffusion method. The findings showed that potential antibacterial properties of the extracts against the organisms tested. The most susceptible microorganisms were S. aureus, while the least susceptible was E. coli. Aqueous extracts had no activity against the test bacteria the leaves of plant were found abundant with biologically active phytochemicals.