Abstract:
Essential oils possess significant antimicrobial activity and can substitute.
With success to antibiotics that show their inefficiencies against resistant microorganisms, this led us to carry out a chemical analysis and study of the antimicrobial activity of essential oils of syzygum aromaticum and illicium verum.
The chemical analysis of the three extracts: macerated, decoction and infused of both spices revealed the presence of flavonoids, condensed tannins and polyphenol.
The total content of phenolic compound was determined using the Folin-Ciocalteu reagent,
Is 200 μg EAC / mg Ps for Syzygium Aromaticum and 102.939 μg EAC / mg Ps for that of Illicium verum. Flavonoids were evaluated using the AlCl3 method, their contents being 25.611 μg EQ /mg Extract of Syzygium Aromaticum and 40.995 μg EQ /mg Ps for Illicium verum. Extraction of the essential oil by steam distillation showed a significant yield of 4.58% for Illicium verum (L) and 3.302% for Syzgyium Aromaticum (L).
The antimicrobial activity was determined on two pathogenic bacterial strains, according to the disk diffusion method. The essential oil of Syyzgium Aromaticum (clove) has a strong antibacterial activity represented with inhibition diameters varying between 11 mm to 16 mm against Escherichia coli and 8 mm to 14 mm for Pseudomanas auroginosa.
