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Antibacterial activity of plant extracts used externally in traditional medicine
1Institute of Pharmacognosy, University of Graz, Austria.
Journal of Ethnopharmacology
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
Plants of 28 families, selected on the basis of medicinal folklore reports and literature data, were studied in a screening program. Aqueous extracts of plants used externally for the treatment of infected skin lesions were tested for their antibacterial potential. The results indicated that about 60% of the plant extracts tested exhibited some level of antibacterial action.