Stem is
used to reduce post-delivery pain in mothers and also useful in rheumatic pains and diarrhoea [8].
However, there is no report available in the literature on the analyses of essential oil from leaves of P.
chaba and its anti-listerial property.
Hence, efforts have been made to investigate the role of essentialoil and various extracts of P. chaba as an anti-listerial potential.