PHYTOCHEMICAL AND ANTIMICROBIAL STUDIES OF THE LEAVES EXTRACT OF PILIOSTIGMA THONNINGII SCHUM Milne - Redh (FABACEAE)

📄 Project Abstract

Man have been using medicinal preparations derived from plants and other sources like animals and minerals from time immemorial, the practice being as old as man himself. The use of medicinal plants have passed through several developmental stages from crude and to the present day drugs like tablets, capsules, injections, ointments, creams, etc. This then make it difficult for the present day man to say exactly when the use of plants in medicines started. However, records of the use of plants in traditional medicines by the ancient civilisation like the Chinese, Greek, Indians and the Babylonians are still in existence. There are still some books or texts that show that the Egyptians were in possession of a good knowledge of plants in traditional medicines, they have recognised the important values of castor oil, dates, garlic and honey (Snowdon and Cliver, 1996). Ancient texts of India and China contain exhaustive depictions of the use of a variety of plant-derived medications (Ahmed ...