Abstract

PHYTOCHEMICAL SCREENING & ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY OF STEM OF LANTANA CAMARA

Shanti Patel*, Neelmani Chauhan, B. K. Dubey, Deepak Kumar Basedia, Sunil Kumar

ABSTRACT

Many centuries ago human discovered the existence of microorganisms, the possibility that plants have curative abilities which contained antimicrobial properties was well accepted. Human first used plants as food, due to this the link to the therapeutic powers of the plants was discovered. The techniques for transforming the healing properties of plants into forms beneficial to human were passed down through oral history. A history exists of Ancient remedies may have associated this knowledge with witchcraft, mysticism, astrology, or religion; but eventually those effective treatments were documented, leading to the early herbals. Medicinal plants have been widely used to treat a variety of infectious and non-infectious diseases. According to an estimate, 25% of the commonly used medicines contain compounds isolated from plants. Several plants could offer a rich reserve for drug discovery of infectious diseases, particularly in an era when the latest separation techniques are available on one hand, and the human population is challenged by a number of emerging infectious diseases Archives of early civilizations such as the Assyrian, Egyptian, Chinese and Greek mentioned the use of herbs and herbal drugs to alleviate diseases. In the early 1900s, the golden age of phytotherapy, medicinal plants were the main source use to maintain health.

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