ANTIMICROBIAL & ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY OF THE PLANT EXTRACT OF EUPHORBIA HIRTA L.

Abstract

Green plants synthesize and preserve a variety of biochemical products, many of which are extractable and used as chemical feed stocks or as raw material for various scientific investigations. Many secondary metabolites of plant are commercially important and find use in a number of pharmaceutical compounds. Phytochemicals are secondary metabolites in one or more parts of the medicinal plants. These have the ability to produce a definite physiological action on the human body. Euphorbia hirta belongs to family Euphorbiaceae. Antimicrobial & antifungal activity of the plant extract is taken up in this study since this plant is medicinally important. The organisms for the study are Klebsiella pneumoniae, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. The activity was studied by agar cup method.