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Table 3 Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) values (mg/ml) of different plant extracts against tested microorganisms

From: Ethnobotanical and antimicrobial study of some selected medicinal plants used in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) as a potential source to cure infectious diseases

Plant species

Extracts

MIC (mg/ml) against different microorganism

  

B. subtilis

K. pneumoniae

S. aureus

E. coli

S. typhi

S. dysentriae

S. cerevisiae

Calotropis procera

Ethanol

8

-

8

8

8

6

8

Artemisia maritima

Ethanol

10

10

8

>10

8

8

6

Neolitsea chinensis

n-Hexane

-

-

6

8

-

-

>10

 

Ethanol

4

-

6

4

6

6

6

Azadirachta indica

Ethanol

2

-

6

2

2

6

4

Cedrela toona

Ethanol

8

-

>10

>10

-

-

10

Melia azedarach

Ethanol

4

-

8

2

2

6

4

Eucalyptus globulus

Aqueous

2

<2

2

4

4

2

<2

 

n-Hexane

8

10

>10

10

8

8

10

 

Ethanol

<2

<2

<2

4

2

2

<2

Punica granatum

Aqueous

10

6

8

>10

8

>10

10

 

Ethanol

4

2

4

2

<2

4

<2

Nigella sativa

Ethanol

10

8

8

10

6

10

-

Bergenia ciliata

Aqueous

8

4

2

<2

4

<2

2

 

Ethanol

2

6

<2

2

2

<2

4

  1. Key-: − not tested; > more than; < less than.