Antimicrobial Activities of Extract from Seeds of Baccaurea Ramiflora

The chemistry of natural product is both fundamental and complex.In nature plants of several variations are available which are responsible for various pharmacological actions.They are termed as medicinal plants. Antioxidants are vital substances having the ability to protect the body from damage caused by free radical induced oxidative stress. Synthetic antioxidants have restricted to use in foods as they are suspected to be carcinogenic 1 .Therefore, the importance of searching natural antioxidants has greatly increased in recent years 2,3 . Modification, improvements, sophistication’s and newer discoveries are continuously changing the type, qualityof medicinal preparations. However,plantderived drugs still feature in modern medicine can be assessed.A recent survey by the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development (UNCTAD) indicated that about 33% drugs produced in the developed countries, are derived from plants and that if microbes are added 60% of medicinal products are of natural origin 4 .According to some sources almost 80% of present day medicines are directly or indirectly derived from plants. The consumption of medicinal plants in increasing in many developed countries, where 35% of drugs contain active principle from natural origin 5,6 .