Antimicrobial Property of some Medicinal Orchids

Orchids are one of the beautiful plants created by nature. It contains both beautiful and an excellent vase/self life flower. They are also a source of flavor food and traditional medicine. Vanillin which is added to ice creams and delicacies as flavoring agent is extracted from the pods of an orchid. The tubers of many orchids are being consumed as foods. A number of different alkaloids used as medicine also reported from orchids.The focus of this book Antimicrobial Property of Medicinal Orchids is on providing resources and ideas to help researcher to get minimum information regarding the medicinal orchids of India. The methodology of the book is purely practicable for handling any project on the preliminary screening of medicinal plants. The result also implies the crude extract of the orchids and its impact of human pathogen. Also this book could refereed the ethno-medicinal value of orchids.