ANTIBACTERIAL AND ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITIES OF AQUEOUS EXTRACT OF ACACIA CONCINNA LINN

Shikakai fruit used as herbal shampoo and also used in traditional medicine to treat jaundice, constipation and skin problems. The literature survey on this plant revealed that poor scientific studies are carried out to discover new therapeutic entities. The results of the antibacterial screening of aqueous extract of the leaves of Acacia concinna revealed that it has significant antibacterial activity against gram positive and gram negative tested bacterial strains. The maximum antibacterial activity of aqueous extract was exhibited against E.coli and the maximum inhibition was observed with gram positive organism, Micrococcus luteus. The aqueous extract of Acacia concinna showed that significant anthelimentic activity when compared to piperazine citrate at the tested concentration of 5mg/ml. The plant extract contains along with inert chemical constituents also possess multiple of active therapeutically active constituents which are responsible for greater therapeutic activity then the single active constituent of synthetic medicine in the case resistant microorganism strains. Keywords: Shikakai, Acacia concinna, Anthelmintic activity, Antibacterial activity