Tridax Procumbens Research Paper

Tridax Procumbens Medicine for Life: An Overview.

ABSTRACT: Nature has been a source of medicinal agents for thousands of years and an impressive numbers of modern drugs have been isolated from natural resources. Tridax procumbens Linn (Family –Asteraceae common name- Dhaman grass) is common herb found in India. Tridax procumbens is well known Ayurvedic, thino-botanical and unani medicinal plant. Pharmacological studies have shown that Tridax procumbens possess properties like anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotective, wound heal, antimicrobial, antiseptic, hypotensive and bradycardiac effects. The whole plant was reported to treat various elements, such as dysentery, diarrhea and preventing hair loss. These properties are mainly due to many active

The disease producing microbes are playing a very important role in human life. Therefore, the chemotherapy of infectious diseases has proved to be a continuous struggle. Scientists are always in search of new antimicrobial agent to control the ever increasing menace of microbes. Therefore medicinal plants are gifts of nature to use as a source of medicine from ancient times. [1]. The abundance of plants on the earth’s surfaces has led to an increasing interest in the investigation of different extracts obtained from traditional medicinal plants as potential source of new antimicrobial agents.

Maximum zone of inhibition was obtained for E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa than Streptococcus pheumonia. Satyanarayana et al [11] were studied antibacterial activity of different phytochemical extracts from the leaves of T. procumbens Linn against Staphyclococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabills and Vibrio cholerae. Antibacterial activity of hexane, petroleum ether, chloroform and methanol extract obtained from the aeirial parts of T. procumbens was tested against both gram positive (Staphylococeus aureus and Bacillus subtilis) and gram negative (Enterobacter aerogenes)using agar well diffusion method, indicated the presence of more active compound in methanol than in hexane extract [12] Bobbarala et al [13] studied antifungal activity of whole plant extract against phytopathogenic fungi, Aspergillus niger. The leaf extract of T. procumbens was tested against Fusarium oxysporium f sp.udum. Bultar Var Crotolariae (Kulkarni) pidwick causing seeding blight of Pigeon pea [14]. Aniel et al [2] studied antibacterial potential against E.Coli, Klebsiella pheumoniae, Proteus vulgaris, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus and found minimum inhibitory concentration ranged between 1.9 -19.5. Yoga et al [15] were studied antimicrobial activity of T. procumbens L. as food preservatives. Free and bound flavonoids