Abstract
Drugs on diarrhoea, infant immunity, neck and back aches has been become very much essential now- a- days due to stress and strain of present day life style and food habits . Hence herbal drugs like Indigofera hirsuta has the ability in healing above problems as reported by African tribals and also the local herbalists. Studies on antibacterial activity and MIC values of fruit extracts of I. hirsuta on certain human pathogens were carried out as per the standard methods. Fruits consists nearly 14 Phyto constituents mainly in aqueous, methanol, alcohol, ethyl acetate and chloroform extracts. Fixed oils are totally absent. Antibacterial activity against selected four bacterial strains was very effective than the control drug Ampicillin and the MIC values ranges from 0.019mg to 0.312mg. Hence I. hirsuta proved its herbal usage against diarrohea, chest and body pains, infant immunity and skin diseases.
