Antimicrobial activity of some ethnomedicinal plants used by Paliyar tribe from Tamil Nadu, India

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Duraipandiyan, Veeramuthu ^a   Ayyanar, Muniappan ^a   Ignacimuthu, Savarimuthu ^a  

^a LOYOLA COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACALYPHA FRUTICOSA EXTRACT; ALBIZIA PROCERA EXTRACT; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CASSIA ALATA EXTRACT; CASSIA AURICULATA EXTRACT; CASSIA FISTULA EXTRACT; DIOSPYROS EBENUM EXTRACT; DIOTACANTHUS ALBIFLORUS EXTRACT; DIURETIC AGENT; ELEPHANTOPUS SCABER EXTRACT; EXPECTORANT AGENT; HEXANE; LAXATIVE; METHANE; NARCOTIC AGENT; OLAX SCANDENS EXTRACT; PAVETTA INDICA EXTRACT; PELTOPHORUM PTEROCARPUM EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; PTEROLOBIUM HEXAPETALUM EXTRACT; PUNICA GRANATUM EXTRACT; SOLANUM XANTHOCARPUM EXTRACT; SYZYGIUM CUMINI EXTRACT; SYZYGIUM LINEARE EXTRACT; TABERNAEMONTANA HEYNEANA EXTRACT; TODDALIA ASIATICA EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACALYPHA FRUTICOSA; ALBIZIA PROCERA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASSIA ALATA; CASSIA AURICULATA; CASSIA FISTULA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIOSPYROS EBENUM; DIOTACANTHUS ALBIFLORUS; ELEPHANTOPUS SCABER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHNOLOGY; EXTRACTION; HERBAL MEDICINE; INDIA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MEDICINAL PLANT; NONHUMAN; OLAX SCANDENS; PAVETTA INDICA; PELTOPHORUM PTEROCARPUM; PROTEUS VULGARIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PTEROLOBIUM HEXAPETALUM; SOLANUM XANTHOCARPUM; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SYZYGIUM CUMINI; SYZYGIUM LINEARE; TABERNAEMONTANA HEYNEANA; TODDALIA ASIATICA; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ALBIZZIA; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUGENIA; HUMANS; INDIA; PLANT EXTRACTS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 33750289792     PISSN: 14726882     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-6-35     Document Type: Article

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