Irrespective of the traditional usages, phytochemical analytical
studies on A. cocculus are very much limited. In this context
attempts have been made in the present investigation for the preliminary
screening of the phytochemicals present in the seeds of
A. cocculus using seven types of solvent extracts. The solvents
were selected on the basis of their polarity indices and in the
increasing order of polarity the selected solvents are petroleum
ether, benzene, chloroform, acetone, methanol, ethanol, and a
mixture of methanol and ethyl acetate (1:3). To the best of our
knowledge, efforts have been made for the first time to compare
the antimicrobial potencies of these extracts using five strains of
bacteria viz