Abstract

A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW ON THE OCIMUM BASSED ANTI BACTERIAL ESSENTIAL OIL

Prerna Sharma* and Kumud Upadhyaya

Abstract

Antimicrobial agents are essential drugs for human health and animal health and welfare. The antimicrobial agents covers most of the area among the all types of the drug class in spite of that the resistance to antimicrobials is a global public health concern that is impacted by both human and non human usage. The active ingredients and their semi synthetic derivatives have been recognized as the primary pharmacophore for the bioactivity especially antibacterial activity. The antibacterial drug resistance continues to be a public health concern, where the new drug discovery for the resist bacteria is a concern, where the various approaches been tried, but in the current scenario the approach is inclined toward the natural product and their derivatives. The review will summarized with the essential oil extracted from the Ocimum Genus, and their use as an antibiotic activity. The biological activities of the privileged plant have been summarized in a few review articles, so need of the systemic review is in public domain, in view of these, the aim of this review is to provide a platform to know the importance of Ocimum Genus. Here in the focus was on those literature reports wherein the uses of the Ocimum 6Genus and their antibiotics activity have been described. The importance of the plant and the active constituent‘s has been summarized herein with the suitable literature references.

Keywords: Ocimum Genus, anti-biotics Plant, Natural source, Tulsi, Drug discovery, Ayurveda, Eugenol.