ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANALGESIC ACTIVITIES OF VARIOUS EXTRACTS OF MUSSAENDA FRONDOSA L. BARK

The bark of the Mussaenda frondosa L. was extracted with different solvents and screened for their antimicrobial and analgesic activities. Antimicrobial activity was evaluated using MIC method and analgesic activity was carried out by acetic acid induced writhing method. Methanol extract exhibited almost equipotent anti-bacterial activity as compared with that of standard drug ciproflaxacin and exhibited potent anti-fungal activity compared with that of standard clotrimazole. Chloroform extract of Mussaenda frondosa L. bark has almost same percentage protection as compared with the standard drug acetyl salicylic acid in analgesic activity.