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Centella Asiatica Case Study

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study
Although there are progresses in human medicine, infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microbes and parasites are still a dangerous threat to the human. The drug resistance of human pathogen and the side effects of the synthetic drugs have led the researchers to develop the potential of medicinal plants as raw drugs that has various therapeutic importances including Centella asiatica. Large amount of these raw drugs can be served as raw materials for many herbal industries because of its secondary metabolites (Dash et al., 2011). Centella asiatica are said to have antimicrobial activity because of phytochemicals constituents such as phenolics, alkaloids, steroids, terpenes and saponins that have properties of anti-mutagenic, …show more content…

These natural plants have minimal side effects, economical (Jagtap et al., 2009) and uncomplicated in getting sources compared to the artificial drugs (Das et al., 2013). These plants have defense mechanism against external stress and pathogenic attack that can cause inflammation, atherosclerosis, itching and swelling attack, mental fatigue and neurological disruption, tuberculosis, various skin lesions and ailments such as leprosy, lupus, psoriasis and keloid.
It also has many properties including anti-aging, anti-ulcer, antifungal, antioxidant, cytotoxic and anti-cancer, antiseptic, anti-fertility and antibacterial activity against Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria. Centella asiatica can act as cardio protective, hepato protective, cooling agent, carminative, brain tonic, seductive to nerve stomachic, epidermal wound healing, memory enhancement and Staphylococcus species inhibitor (Shobana et al.,

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