Antimicrobial activity and phytochemical analysis of Sanseiveria roxburghiana leaf

Medicinal plants play an important role in the discovery of novel drugs used in modern medicine. The medicinal plant Sanseiveria roxburghiana leaf possesses the wide range of medicinal properties which were confirmed through literature reviews. The present study was to determine it’s leaves have any antimicrobial activity and also to check whether their phyto chemical constituents responsible for said activities. The Sanseiveria roxburghiana leaf extract was obtained by mixing the pulverized leaf materials with various solvent such as diethyl ether, ethanol and acetone, filtered with What man No.1 filter paper and concentrated to dryness. The collected extracts were tested for antimicrobial activities and the presence of chemical constituents by preliminary phytochemical analysis according to the literature. The antimicrobial susceptibility studies were conducted against gram (-) bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae and gram (+) such as Staphylococcus aureus. The current result supports the medicinal use of the leaf which acts as an antimicrobial agent. However further studies need to isolate the active constituents from the leaf and to study the antimicrobial activity in cellular level