J. Health Dev. But most of the aetiologic agents in many countries have already developed resistance to common antibiotics. In most developing countries where people are living in poor hygienic conditions, the chance of contracting food borne diseases is undoubtedly high. Due to absence of sufficient modern health care system, particularly in the rural areas, people prefer to visit traditional healers. Thus they depend on traditional medicine to treat themselves.
Some traditional healers use medicinal plants.
With proper investigation these may serve as a source of modern drug. In developing countries their use has helped to substitute imports of drugs, thus boosting economic self-reliance. Most of such studies concentrated on extracts of the plants and not on the crude preparations, although traditional treatment usually considers crude preparations. The purpose of this study is therefore to evaluate the antimicrobial potential of the crude preparations of some of the medicinal plants, Viz. Samples were thoroughly cleaned with sterile distilled water.