ASSESSMENT OF ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY OF HOT AQUA EXTRACT OF SENNA DIDYMOBOTRYA LEAVES

Abstract

Nature is a paradise of medicinal solutions to all ailments affecting human beings through medicinal plants. Me

dicinal plants are being used widely to treat against the currently widespread strains of drug resistant bacteria.

Scientists all over the world are working hard to provide scientific justification on the traditional use of medici

nal plants to treat almost all the ailments affecting human beings. Green medicine has attracted great interest

due to the belief that it is safe, cheap and more dependable than aliphatic drugs, which have adverse side ef

fects. Senna didymobotrya is widely used traditionally to treat against various illnesses such as abdominal pains,

stomach problems and as an anthelmintic. The current study was done to investigate the antibacterial activity

of infused Senna leaves. From the study, the plant was found to inhibit the growth of all the gram positive and

gram-negative bacteria it was tested against. The plant extract inhibited the growth of Staphylococcus aureus

with a zone of inhibition of 11.00±0.577, Salmonella typhi 9.67±0.333, Proteus vulgaris 13.00±0.577, Escheri

chia coli 18.33±0.882, Enterobacter aerogenes 10.33±0.667, Bacillus cereus 14.33±0.333. The data obtained

clearly shows how great potency the plant has against bacterial organisms. The results obtained in this research

work are a scientific justification on the traditional use of Senna didymobotrya to treat against diseases cause by

all the bacterial organisms it was tested against.