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Medicinal Plants: A Tool to Overcome Antibiotic Resistance?
Table 1. Examples of some antimicrobial compounds from medicinal plants by class,
source and activity
Compounds Medicinal plants Antimicrobial property References
Phenylpropanoids
Eugenol
Caffeic acid
Syzygium aromaticum
(Myrtaceae)
Olea europaea
(Oleaceae)
Flavonoids
Licochalcone Glycyrrhiza inflate
(Fabaceae)
Laburnetin Ficus chlamydocarpa
(Moraceae)
Piliostigmol Piliostigma reticulatum
(Caesalpiniaceae)
Glabranin Helichrysum forskahlii
(Asteraceae)
Sulcatone A Ouratea sulcata
(Ochnaceae)
Tannins
Corilagin Cunonia macrophylla
(Cunoniaceae)
Quinones
Newbouldiaquinone A Newbouldia laevis
(Bignoniaceae)
Zenkequinone B Stereospermum zenkeri
(Bignoniaceae)
2-methyl-6-(-3-methyl-2- Gunnera perpensa
butenyl)benzo-1,4-quinone (Haloragaceae)
Terpenoids
Activity MO highly
sensitive
MIC
range
(µg/ml)
321
Antibacterial B.s, E.c, H.p 2 (Ali et al., 2005;
Rastogi et al., 2008)
Antibacterial S.m, E.cl 2 (Almeida et al.,
2006; Pereira et al.,
2007)
Antibacterial
Antimucobacterial
Antileishmanial
Antiplasmodial
Antiviral
Antibacterial
Antimucobacterial
Antifungal
Antibacterial
Antifungal
Antibacterial
Antibacterial
Antibacterial
Antifungal
Antibacterial
Antifungal
Antimaplasmodial
S.a, B.s, M.t
L.m
P.f
H.I.V
S.a
M. s
C.a
S.a, E.c
C.a
2 - 8
7
1.6 µM
-
-
19
0.6
39
2 - 3
10
(Shea et al., 1993;
Chen et al., 1994;
Zhai et al., 1995;
Haraguchi et al.,
1998; Friis-Moller et
al., 2002; Tsukiyama
et al., 2002)
(Kuete et al., 2008)
(Babajide et al.,
2008)
S.a, B.s 3 - 6 (Al-Rehaily et al.,
2008)
S.a, B.s 8 - 12 (Pegnyemb et al.,
2005)
S.a
C.a
E.c, K.p
C.g
P.f
-
-
0.3-10
0.31
-
(Fogliani et al.,
2005)
(Eyong et al., 2005)
(Kuete et al., 2007)
Antibacterial P.a, E.c, 9-18 (Lenta et al., 2007)
Antibacterial
Antifungal
B.c, S.a
C.a
18-39
130
(Buwa et van
Staden, 2006)
(Drewes et al., 2005)
Aethiopinone Salvia sclarea (Lamiaceae) Antibacterial S.a, S.e 37-75 (Kuzma et al., 2007)