Activities of Selected Herbal Spices in Various Combinations

Abstract

In the present study pharmacological activities like antimicrobial, antifungal and antioxidant activities were determined in the selected herbal plants. In this study garlic, onion, ginger, lemon and turmeric were taken for the study. These are common herbal spices which are generally used in Indian kitchen. These herbal plants have good antimicrobial nature which is revealed and supported by many researchers. In this study, herbal medicinal plants i.e. Garlic, Onion, Ginger, Lemon and Turmeric were also taken in different combinations to assess level of various enzymatic and non enzymatic antioxidant properties, antifungal and antimicrobial properties. Combinations of juice extracts of herbal spices have shown much better antibiotic and antioxidant properties than standard antibiotics or antioxidants used. Some selected combinations of extracts have shown very good properties, which is higher than the reference standard antibiotics taken. Another finding of this study is related to Anti-Inflammatory activities shown by some combinations of juice extracts of herbal plants. Combination of turmeric, ginger and garlic in 1:1:1 ratio have shown more anti-inflammatory activity as compared to standard reference. newlineIndividually garlic is most potent herbal plant against the selected bacterial strains among the selected plant. Micrococcus spp bacteria are observed to be most sensitive against these selected herbal plant extracts. In double combinations, GT,GGi and GiT, combinations were observed to be very effective against most gram-positive and gram negative bacteria. They have also shown more potential as compared to standard antibiotic-chloroamphenicol. In triple combination, GGiT has shown best antibacterial potential than any other and this is also more than standard compound. Other potent combinations are GOT and GOL. In combinations, GT combination is having best anti-fungal potential followed by GGi. They were found to have more potential as compared to standard antifungal-ketcanazole newline