EXPLORING THE PHARMACOGNOSTIC CHARACTERISTICS AND ANTIMICROBIAL POTENTIAL OF LEAVES OF URENA LOBATA LINN.

Abstract

Although herbal drugs are known to elicit their response quite slowly but they are now overtaking allopathic medicine owing to its high cost, side effects, drug resistance and development of tolerance. This article spots some light on an obscured herbal drug named Urena lobata Linn (Malvaceae) for its antimicrobial activity and also provides some pharmacognostic studies of the drug.