Antibacterial Activity of Acalypha indica Linn.
The present study was subjected to evaluate the antibacterial activity of petroleum
ether, chloroform, acetone, methanol and ethanol extract of the medicinal plant
Acalypha indica Linn using the standard disc diffusion method against four
bacterial species, viz., Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and
Escherichia coli. The antibacterial activity revealed that the petroleum ether extract
has more effective than the ethanol, acetone, methanol extracts. A preliminary
phytochemical screening was conducted on the plant extracts using standard
qualitative procedures that revealed the presence of the alkaloids, saponins,
phenols, flavonoid and tannin in rich status.