Antioxidant Potential and Antibacterial Activity of Siddha Chooranam Prescribed to Cure Wound by the Traditional Siddha Medicinal Practitioner of Kanyakumari District, India

Abstract

The polyherbal formulation of the Siddha chooranam comprised of 15 traditionally used herbs explore for the treatment of wound. The present investigation was mainly focused on the phytochemical, antioxidant potential and antimicrobial activities.The phytochemicals constituents in the herbal formulation revealed positive response of significant secondary metabolites. The unexplored area of chooranam towards their antioxidation effect in aqueous, chloroform and ethanol extracts indicated promising antioxidant activities of the crude extract.India has an eminent wealth of therapeutic agents for various ailments and diseases in our traditional system of medicine. Siddha Medicine is one of the oldest medical systems known to mankind.According to Siddha medicine system, diet and lifestyle play a major role not only in health but also in curing diseases. The formulations and treatment of Siddha medicine emphasizes that medical treatment must be oriented not merely to disease but also in view of the patient his environment, sex, age, habits, mental frame, diet, physical conditions etc. Phytochemicals with adequate antibacterial efficacy will be used for the treatment of the bacterial infections [1]. Antibiotics are the products of microbes that are powerful medicines fight against bacterial infections in dilute solution, inhibit or kill other organisms. Antimicrobial agents include antibiotics and synthetic compounds that have the same effect. Naturally occurring antibiotics may be modified to give semi-synthetic derivatives differ from their ferment compound as pharmacological properties. Those agents that kill bacteria are said to be bactericidal was reversible upon removal of the drug [2]. Primary metabolites such as carbohydrates, amino acids and fatty acids are directly useful for plants themselves. These are the metabolic intermediates of anabolic and catabolic pathways, which occur in plants, have the same metabolic functions. Plants also contain large variety of substances named secondary metabolites with no apparent direct metabolic functions [3]. All plants contain these compounds, which was once considered as being waste products