A REVIEW: HOUSEHOLD HERBS HAVE ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY
Ubaid Shaikh*, Mohammed Abrar, Mehmood Shaikh, Ansari Danish, Khan Usama, Abul Kalam
ABSTRACT
Medicinal plants have been widely used to treat a variety of infectious and non-infectious diseases. The resistance to antibiotics and with the toxicity during prolonged treatment with several drugs due to this medicinal plants are widely used by the traditional medical practitioners for curing various diseases in their day to day practice. Since early times, plants have been a very good source of medicine. Among numerous another diseases, fungal infections are causing a great threat to the humanity, as so many people suffer from fungal infections globally due to rising resistance of fungal strains. The
existing antifungal drugs are too much expensive and have numerous side effects. This article describes potential antifungal properties of medicinal plants against fungi. The herbal drugs have less side effects, easily available.
Keywords: medicinal plants, antifungal, Drug, antibiotic.
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