Comparing antibacterial activity of “cow urine–Acacia stem bark extract” against pathogenic bacteria

Author: Kajal Sharma*, Deepinderpal Singh, Sandeep Kaur, Amanpreet Kaur and Navjot Kaur

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Abstract

In India, Cow has been considered as a holy animal. The use of cow urine for curing many diseases has been known from ancient times. Similarly, the plants are worshiped in India. Also, the various plant parts are used in treatment of incurable diseases and the Acacia is one of them. Each part of Acacia like leaves, stem, etc. used to treat a number of diseases. The present study was undertaken to determine the antibacterial activity against pathogenic bacteria E. coli at different concentrations with different organic and cow urine extract of Acacia using well diffusion method. The cow urine extract of Acacia shows the maximum antibacterial activity which is may be due to the presence of inhibitory components in both of them. Thus the combination of both of them can be used to treat many diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria E. coli.

Keywords

Acacia, well diffusion method, antibacterial activity.

Conclusion

From the above study it can be concluded that extract of cow urine and Acacia stem bark powder showed maximum zone of inhibition while the organic and aqueous extracts does not show such high antibacterial activity. Thus the plant based formulation of cow urine can be used for curing many diseases caused by E. coli. It is also an inventive step for the development of new drugs.

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Sharma, Kajal, Singh, Deepinderpal, Kaur, Sandeep, Kaur, Amanpreet and Kaur, Navjot (2019). Comparing antibacterial activity of “Acacia stem bark – cow urine extract” and various organic extracts against pathogenic bacteria E. coli. Biological Foru