antibacterial and phytochemical screening of anethum graveolens, foeniculum vulgare and trachyspermum ammi抗菌和植物化学的筛选anethum graveolens,可和trachyspermum ammi.pdfVIP

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine BioMed Central Research article Open Access Antibacterial and phytochemical screening of Anethum graveolens, Foeniculum vulgare and Trachyspermum ammi Gurinder J Kaur and Daljit S Arora* Address: Microbial Technology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143005, Punjab, India Email: Gurinder J Kaur - jeetgurinder@; Daljit S Arora* - daljit_02@yahoo.co.in * Corresponding author Published: 6 August 2009 Received: 26 May 2009 Accepted: 6 August 2009 BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2009, 9:30 doi:10.1186/1472-6882-9-30 This article is available from: /1472-6882/9/30 © 2009 Kaur and Arora; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Anethum graveolens Linn., Foeniculum vulgare Mill. and Trachyspermum ammi L. are widely used traditional medicinal plants to treat various ailments. To provide a scientific basis to traditional uses of these plants, their aqueous and organic seed extracts, as well as isolated phytoconstituents were evaluated for their antibacterial potential. Methods: Antibacterial activity of aqueous and organic seed extracts was assessed using agar diffusion assay, minim