Abstract

The uses of drugs derived from herbal medicines are on the rise in recent decades. Microbiology has proven to be one of the crucial sciences Siddha system exploits plant extracts to treat many diseases. plant extract found to possess antimicrobial properties for many decades. In Siddha literature there are indications to use elathy mathirai for respiratory diseases. So need of the hour is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of antimicrobial properties of siddha drugs.  This study aims to  explore and evaluate the anti microbial properties of Elathy  mathirai ,a siddha poly herbal tablet.