EXPLORING THE PHARMACOGNOSTIC CHARACTERISTICS AND ANTIMICROBIAL POTENTIAL OF LEAVES OF URENA LOBATA LINN.

Although herbal drugs are known to elicit their response quite slowly but they are now overtaking allopathic medicine owing t o its high cost, side effects, drug resistance and development of tolerance. This article spots some light on an obscured herbal dr ug named Urena lobata Linn (Malvaceae) for its antimicrobial activity and also provides some pharmacognostic studies of the drug.

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