Pharmacological Study on Fruits, Leaves and Bark of Ficus Glomerata

Sharafat Ali Tariq has done his BS (Hons) and M.Phil in Org/Bio Chemistry with specialization in Natural Products, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Terpenoids, synthesis of small aromatic systems and Modern Spectroscopy. Presently he continued research related to Natural Products at Forman Christian College (A Chartered University) Lahore, Pakistan.

Ficus glomerata is a tree also known by a name cluster fig. It is famous for a number of ethnomedicinal applications such as to cure gastric ulcers and possess wormicidal and larvicidal activity. In the present work, we studied the antimicrobial and antioxidant properties of the methanolic extracts of the leaves, fruits and bark of the plant. Antimicrobial study has also been conducted by us revealed that the methanolic extracts of fruits, leaves and bark of plant effective against the strains Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi, Shigella sonnei and Escherichia coli microorganisms. The results show that methanolic extract of leaves have greater antimicrobial activity than other fractions and its antimicrobial ability is comparable with the market available antibiotics. The study was done by Agar Well Diffusion assay. The antioxidant and radical scavenging activity of the methanolic extracts of leaves, fruits and bark was determined using DPPH and phosphomolibidate radical methods. All the extracts showed considerable antioxidant and radical scavenging activity. The maximum antioxidant activity was found in methanolic extract of the bark.