ISSN: 2577-4379
Authors: Gopinathan N*, Balaji B, Gokul Kumar K and Senthil Raj
Introduction: An impressive number of modern drugs have been already isolated from these natural resources particularly of plant origin. The name Tridax refers to the three lobes of the ray flowers while procumbens refers to the prostrate, trailing habit of the stems. It is one of the essential ingredients in the most of the compound preparations of Ayurvedic literature. Tridax procumbens belongs to the Asteraceae family have been used from ancient times to treat wounds, skin diseases and to stop blood clotting in folk medicine. Objective: The current theme of this work is to estimate of the bacterial property of Tridaxprocumbent using agar well diffusion method. Method: Leaf extract of Tridax procumbens obtained by cold maceration process. Plants were collected from Madhavaram, Chennai, Tamilnadu in the month of august 2023. It is authenticated by Botanist and herbarium was prepared and deposited in the college museum. The ethanolic extract was examined against Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis, and Pseudomonas vulgaris by agar well diffusion method. The ethanol is used as control. The ofloxacin is used as standard. Conclusion: Tridax procumbens leaf extract terminates most propitious source. A systematic correlation between ethno pharmacological relevance and scientific evidence to provide proof of the importance of the plant to indigenous people as well as pharmaceutical industries.
Keywords: Antibacterial Tridox Procumbens; Agar well Diffusion Method; Maceration
