Antimalarial Activity of Crude Extract and Solvent Fractions of Leaves of Solanum nigrum L. (Solanaceae) against Plasmodium berghei in Mice

Table 1

Preliminary phytochemical screening of crude hydromethanolic extract and solvent fractions of the leaves of S. nigrum.

	Phenol	Flavonoid	Glycoside	Alkaloid	Saponin	Steroid	Tannin	Anthraquinone	Terpenoid
Crude hydromethanolic extract	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	−	+
Ethyl acetate fraction	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	−	+
Chloroform fraction	+	+	+	+	−	+	+	−	−

+ = presence; − = absence.