DETERMINE THE ANTI-BACTERIAL PROPERTIES OF MIMOSA PUDICA PLANT AGAINST SELECTED MICRO-ORGANISMS BY PLATING

Abstract

Plants have been the traditional sources of raw materials for medicine. The benefits of using
the natural products has increased and the active plant extracts are frequently used for new
drug discoveries and for the presence of antimicrobials.Mimosa pudica also called sensitive
plant which folds itself when touched and spreads its leaves once again after a while. The
plant extracts from various parts of Mimosa pudica may be used by those who practice
Ayurveda. M.pudica is also used to avoid or cure several disorders like cancer, diabetes,
hepatitis, obesity and urinary infections. This plant is famous for its anticancer alkaloid,
mimosine with another valuable secondary metabolites like tannins, steroids, flavonoids,
triterpenes and glycosylflavones.
The plant was identified using NCBI primer blast and to identify the antibacterial effects of
aqueous extraction of root and flowers of Mimosa pudica plant, well diffusion method was
done against E.coli JM 101 strain, Bacillus spp., Pseudomonas spp.bacterial cultures. The
result of this study confirmed that the in-vitro antibacterial activity indicatesno significant
activity against this selected bacteria in aqueous extract and there were no zone of inhibition
and showed that the extracted DNA could be used directly for Polymerase Chain Reaction.
This research presented information about Mimosa pudica plant and that claims there is a vast
potential in this herb in view of therapeutics and furthermore, commercialization of this herb
would be in line with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines is highly desirable
for the benefits of humanity. The general data have provided the basis for its wide use as
therapeutic both in traditional and folk medicine. In recently, there are emerging many
multidrug resistant human pathogenic bacteria