In the last decades, innumerable efforts have been directed to confer to the plants its real value in the therapy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial activity of dry extracts of Artemisia absinthium L. (wormwood), Mentha pulegium L. (poejo), Punica granatum L. (pomegranate), Xanthosema violaceum Schott(taro) and Syzygium cuminii L. (jambolan). To evaluate the antimicrobial activity the diffusion test in agar was carried through, with 15 different microorganisms, using discs impregnated with aqueous dispersions of the vegetal extracts. For those extracts that had presented inhibitory activity, the calculation of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration was carried out (CIM). The results had shown that the extracts of X. violaceum and S. cuminii had inhibited 8 and 6 bacteria, respectively. What leads to the conclusion that the extracts of X. violaceum and S. cuminii are capable to inhibit the microbial growth.
Artemisia absinthium; Mentha pulegium; Punica granatum; Syzygium cuminii; Xanthosema violaceum; antimicrobial activity
