UJI AKTIVITAS ANTIBAKTERI DARI ESTRAK TUMBUHAN AKWAY (Drimys beccariana. Gibbs)

2010

<p><em>The plant Akway (Drimys beccariana.</em>Gibbs<em>) is endemic to Papua and is frequently used traditionally by the Arfak tribe as a medicinal plant. We extract the plant by maceration with ethanol. The antibacterial test  is done by Agar diffusion method. As microba test  we used Escheresia coli and Bacillus subtilis. Result obtained from fitochemistry skrinning of the leaf and bark contained alkaloid, flavonoid, steroid, tannin, glikosida, saponin, triterpenoid, steroid and  fenolik. Concentration of active substances from the leaf are flavonoid (0,3680%) and tanin (10.33 %); while from the bark flavonoid 18.35%  and tanin (27.65%).  Antibacterial test showed…