In-vitro Antimicrobial Potential of Cassia Genus – An Overview

Antibiotics are one of the most important weapons in fighting bacterial infections and have greatly benefited the health-related quality of human life since their introduction. Infectious diseases caused by microorganism are still a major threat to health, despite the tremendous progress in human medicine. Dramatic increase in microbial resistance to antimicrobial agents is well known. Such situation leads the necessity for development of new anti-microbial agents in order to treat the infectious disease in an effective manner. The Medicinal plants are considerably useful and are rich in a wide variety of secondary metabolites such as tannins, alkaloids and flavonoids, which have been found in vitro to have antimicrobial properties. Several attempts are continued to identify the potential antimicrobial agent from the natural resources.

Considering the enormous potentiality of plants as sources for antimicrobial drugs with reference to antibacterial agents, a systematic review was undertaken in the present article for antimicrobial potential of Cassia genus.