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Medicinal plants are being used in traditional treatments to cure
variety of diseases from thousands of years. Screening of
antimicrobial and antioxidant activities performed on Elsholtzia
densa crude extracts which is traditionally used as herb shows that
they are endowed with potentially utilizable antimicrobial and free
radical scavenging activity. Accordingly, this implies the
inhibition of microbial pathogenesis and cellular oxidation that is
linked to pathological incidents such as heart disease, aging and
cancer. It was seen that the ethylacetate extract showed the
maximum inhibitory effects against both bacterial and fungal
growth. This may be due to the presence of such ingredients in the
said extracts like flavonoids, terpenes, tannins, polyphenolic
compounds, alkaloids, etc. The crude extracts of the plant possess
radical scavenging activity as estimated by in vitro antioxidant
assays like DNA damage assay, lipid peroxidation assay, DPPH assay,
FTC assay, etc. Hence, Elsholtzia densa extracts could be used as
an easy accessible source of natural antioxidants and antimicrobial
agent.
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