PHYTOCHEMICAL AND ANTIBACTERIAL STUDIES OF Ensete gilletii ROOT EXTRACTS
ABSTRACT Ensete gilletii commonly called wild banana, is ethno-medicinally used for the treatment of diarrhea, dysentery, typhoid, stomach pain, kidney stone and liver disorders by herbal practitioners. The dried pulverized roots of the plant were subjected to exhaustive, successive soxhlet extraction using petroleum ether, chloroform and methanol. The result revealed that a higher percentage yield was obtained from the methanol extract (MEG). The GC-MS analysis of the petroleum ether crude ...
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