Sunday, 4 October 2020

Coltsfoot(Tussilago farfara) Processes Anti-Microbial Activity

By Kyle J. Norton

Infectious diseases are a medical condition caused by pathogenic microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi.

Most cases of infectious diseases are contagious by spreading directly or indirectly, from one person to another.

In other words, if you kiss, or are coughed or sneezed on by an infectious person, you are at risk of developing the same infectious disease.

After entering the body, the organisms selectively find a specific tissue or organ to start their multiplication.

However, the acquired infectious diseases can also be caused by ingesting contaminated food or water or being exposed to organisms in the environment.

According to the statistics provided by the World Health Organization, 3 infectious diseases were ranked in the top ten causes of death worldwide in 2016.

More precisely, lower respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, and tuberculosis induced 3.0 million, 1.4 million, and 1.3 million deaths, respectively.

Antibiotics are a group of conventional medicines used for the treatment of bacterial, fungal parasitic,... infection.

Most organisms before having a chance to induce infection are killed off by the immune system response in the acute phase of infection, by stimulating the production of a proinflammatory cytokine.

On finding a natural compound for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, researchers examined the antimicrobial activity of ethanolic extracts of Tussilago farfara L. 

Coltsfoot(Tussilago farfara) is a perennial herbaceous plant, genus Tussilago, belonging to the family Asteraceae, native to Europe and Asia. The herb has been used over thousands of years to treat asthma, various coughs, bronchial congestion, respiratory disorders, headaches and obstruction in the nasal passage, etc.

Selected strains of bacteria such as Escherichia coli CCM 3988, Serratia rubidea CCM 4684, Staphylococcus epidermis CC 4418, Lactobacillus rhamnosus CCM 1828, Pseudomonas aeroginosa CCM 1960 and Enterococcus raffinosus CCM 4216 were used in the examination.

According to the results of the analysis, ethanolic extracts of Tussilago farfara L.showed the most antibacterial effect on Grampositive bacteria Lactobacillus rhamnosus, compared to the lowest inhibitory activity on yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

However, on the micro broth dilution technique, the ethanolic extract exerted a significant effect against Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Serratia rubidaea.

In other words,  the ethanolic extract of Tussilago farfara L. demonstrated a strong anti-microbial property against all the strains used in the study.

Taken altogether, coltsfoot may be considered a remedy for the prevention and treatment of microbial infections, pending to the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.



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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)

Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
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Antimicrobial activity of Tussilago farfara L by Miroslava Kačániová, Lukas Hleba, Jana Petrová, and  Soňa Felšöciová. (Science Direct)

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