Research Article

Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Properties of the Essential Oil and Extracts of Zanthoxylum alatum Grown in North-Western Himalaya

Table 2

Relative proportion of solvent fractions obtained during fractionation of crude methanolic leaf extract of Zanthoxylum alatum expressed as percent of total amount of crude extract used for the fractionation.

Solvent fractionsPercent yield

Chloroform31.7 ± 0.98
Ethyl acetate4.3 ± 0.05
Acetone6.8 ± 0.09
Methanol57.2 ± 1.78

Values are given as mean ± SD ( ).