Exploring antibacterial & antiulcer activity of aegle marmelos linn. : A review

Abstract

Antimicrobial drugs are those drugs which are used to treat diseases caused by microorganisms. To treat the diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms antibiotic, antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic medicines are used. These microbes produces diseases in humans, animals and plants. According to World Health Organization (WHO). The cases of Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasing day by day and it threatens the effective treatment and prevention of infections caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. AMR occurs when these microbes gets resistance against the effects of medications, which makes common infections difficult to treat and hence increases the risk of severe illness, disease spread and death. As a result, the medicines becomes ineffective, infections remains in the body and increases the probability of spread to others. WHO recommends that decreased use of synthetic antibiotics and increased use of herbal antimicrobial drugs are the only ways by which the AMR can be controlled or eliminated. Herbal drugs are considered to be effective and free from side effects. In the present article we discussed about Aegle Marmelos Linn. (Bael) which is useful in treating many health ailments. It possess many pharmacological activities like anticonvulsant, antioxidant, antihyperglycemic, anxiolytic, antidepressant, antihistaminic, antimicrobial, hepatoprotective, analgesic, immune modulatory, cardio protective and antithyroid activity. Due to its antibacterial activity it is used to treat many infections caused by bacteria and also have antiulcer activity due to which it is used to treat ulcer patients. The bacteria, Helicobacter pylori is one of the cause of peptic ulcer. This review article discusses about the effect of Aegle Marmelos on this bacteria. © 2020 Published by Innovative Publication. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)