Abstract

PHYTO-CHEMICAL ANALYSIS AND ANTI-MICROBIAL ACTIVITY OF ECLIPTA ALBA.

Dr. Nirmala Babu Rao* and O. Sita Kumari

Abstract

The need of natural antimicrobials anti cancer and antioxidents has increased now days as the microbes developing immunity of the synthetic drugs very fast. To overcome this researcher has started isolating compounds from natural sources and the best natural source and easily extracted is plant source. Eclipta alba is a weed plant which is very commonly found and has a very good anti microbial and antioxidant activity, so we have selected this as our test subject. It showed a very good activity than expected. The extracts were tested against bacterial and fungal organisms and the results were moderate.

Keywords: antimicrobials anti cancer and antioxidents.