Ethnobotanical Documentation, Phytochemical Screening, and Cytotoxicity Evaluation of Medicinal Plants Used to Manage Snakebite Envenomation in Mwingi West Subcounty, Kenya

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left" rowspan="2">Plant and part extracted</td><td class="align_center" colspan="3">Percentage yield</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_center">Aqueous extracts</td><td class="align_center">Methanolic extracts</td><td class="align_center">Dichloromethane extracts</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>Entada leptostachya</i> (stem bark)</td><td class="align_center">4</td><td class="align_center">1.22</td><td class="align_center">0.49</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>Senna singueana</i> (root)</td><td class="align_center">5</td><td class="align_center">1.43</td><td class="align_center">1.45</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>Securidaca longipendunculata</i> (root)</td><td class="align_center">10</td><td class="align_center">1.97</td><td class="align_center">0.51</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><i>Strychnos henningsii</i> (stem bark)</td><td class="align_center">5</td><td class="align_center">1.03</td><td class="align_center">0.46</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Yields of the aqueous, methanolic, and dichloromethane extracts of the selected plants.</div>

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Table 3: Ethnobotanical Documentation, Phytochemical Screening, and Cytotoxicity Evaluation of Medicinal Plants Used to Manage Snakebite Envenomation in Mwingi West Subcounty, Kenya 

Table 3 | Ethnobotanical Documentation, Phytochemical Screening, and Cytotoxicity Evaluation of Medicinal Plants Used to Manage Snakebite Envenomation in Mwingi West Subcounty, Kenya 