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Antimicrobial Activities Of Garlic And Ginger Extracts
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Ginger (ginger rhizome ) is the root
of the Zingiber officinale plant, which can be utilized as a medication
or as pleasant condiments. They are grown in Northern Nigeria as
medicine for both human and animals. They are primarily used for
seasoning and also for its medicinal property.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Ginger
derived its name from the genus (Zingiber officinale) and the family
(Zingiberaceae). In addition to ginger, there are other important
followers to this plant family including turmeric, cardamom and
galangal. Zingiber officinale creates sets of flower sprouts (pink and
white) that developed into yellow flowers. As a result of the beautiful
appearance and the habituation of plant to hot weather, Zingiber
officinale is usually utilized as scenery across subequatorial homes.
Fully
developed Zingiber officinale roots are fibrous and approximately arid.
The syrup from ancient ginger rhizomes is highly strong and usually
utilized like condiments in Indian prescription, and is as typical
component of cooking in many Asian countries also this return to its
pleasant relish which makes the taste of many food dishes an extremely
delicious. Zingiber officinale plays role as powerful food
maintenance. In limited studies, ginger was found to have better
effectiveness than placebo in relieving disgust produced by sea
dizziness, morning dizziness, despite ginger is not reported to be
preferred on placebo in relieving surgical sickness. The plant is
reported to have antibacterial, anti-oxidant, antiprotozoal,
anti-fungal, anti-emetic, anti-rhinoviral, anti-inflammatory,
anti-insecticidal activity. Reported pharmacological activities of
ginger include antipyretic, analgesic, ant tissues in addition to
hypersensitive effects.
Ginger extract also showed a
hepatoprotective effect in rats. Besides that, Ginger was found to have
free radical remover activity (prevent oxidant formation); so prevents
lipid oxidation. This finding can explain the well documented
gastro-protective effects. Additionally, ginger extract has
radiopreventive activity which could be useful in preventing gamma
radiation from generating adverse reactions during the course of cancer
therapy in laboratory animal. Moreover, ginger displayed chemopreventive
and antineoplastic effects; also ginger shows to have in the future
role in cancer inhibition, although additional studies are required to
assess this property of ginger . Patients with diabetes mellitus
(cataract) might have developed glycation end-yield for this case
ginger is chosen because of its antiglycating property.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Garlic and Ginger are hardy perennial of Asiatic origin, belonging to the plant family liliaceae. Investigations were carried out to study the inhibitory effect of ginger (Zingiber officinale) and garlic (Allium sativum) extracts at 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 7.0 and 10.0 per cent level in vitro on Escherichia coli and Listeria monocytogenes by spectrophotometer method. Both the spices exhibited bacteriostatic effect against both the test organisms. The inhibitory effect increased with the increase in the c ... Continue reading---
