Efficacy of Ethanol, Methanol and Aqueous Extracts of Irish kashmiriana and Lavatera cachemiriana for Potential Antimicrobial Activity

Plants have been used as source of medicine and remedies since many years. Plants are recently being used in various pharmacologically activities due to their efficacy to treat the diseases. More than 25000 products from plants have been obtained from medicinal plants to treat various diseases. So a study has been planned to elucidate the antimicrobial efficacy and phytochemical screening of the two medicinal plants from Kashmir valley viz. Irish kashmiriana and Lavatera cachemiriana. These two medicinal plants were obtained from Kashmir valllye and tested against Escherichia coli, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus. It was observed from the present study that ethanol, methanol and aqueous extract of Irish kashmiriana has shown the better results in terms of antibacterial activity against Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus except in case of methanol whereas in case of Lavatera cachemiriana, aqueous extract has shown no activity against any of the four tested pathogens. The preliminary screening of whole plants of Lavatera cachemiriana different root extracts of Lavatera cachemiriana and Irish kashmiriana reveals the presence of various phytochemical like tannins, saponins, flavonoids, Terpenoid, Phenol and Carbohydrate which can be used in further novel drug discovery.