Determination of In Vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Five Sri Lankan Medicinal Plants against Selected Human Pathogenic Bacteria

Table 3

Yield of extraction (%) of different extracts of five plants.

Plant	Parts used	Yield of extraction (%)
		Aqueous	Ethanol	Hexane
Asparagus falcatus	Tubers	34.73	9.60	0.5
Asteracantha longifolia	Whole plant	24.81	4.38	3.6
Coriandrum sativum	Seeds	9.54	5.33	1.2
Epaltes divaricata	Whole plant	22.90	7.74	1.1
Vetiveria zizanioides	Roots	9.92	4.03	0.8