Formulation and evaluation of Yemeni ginger and thymus as lozenges
- Pharmacy & Pharmacology International Journal
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Yasser Al-Ansi,1
Abdulmalik Abudunya2
Abstract
Medicinal plant is a study the effective of plant on some pathogenic microorganisms and,
holds a great promise as source of medicines aganist some diseases to all people in some
developing countries, including Africa. Directly, almost 80% of people around the world
depends on the traditional medicine for their primarily health care. The result of current
study revealed that the highest antimicrobial activity was in ginger against S. aureus and
B. subtillus. This result was disagree with pervious study which reported that the ginger
lozenge tablet showed antifungal effective recording inhibition zone diameters of 17, 19,
20, 23, and 25 mm at 5, 10, 20, 30, and 60 min release times, respectively, against the
laboratory isolate of Candida albicans. The result of this study revealed that (menthol and
thymus) were found on this tablet by using GC.
Keywords
herbal, formulation, evaluation, antibacterial, Yemen, ginger, thymus