Pharmacological and Ethnomedicinal Overview of Heritiera fomes: Future Prospects

Table 3

Observed pharmacological activity of H. fomes in various test methods with different solvent extractions.

Solvent extraction and plant part(s) tested	Observed activity	Test method	References
EtOH extracts of leaves.	Antinociceptive	Hot plate, acetic acid-induced writhings in mice	[25]
	Antioxidant	DPPH radical scavenging assay
	Antimicrobial	Disk diffusion assay
80% EtOH crude, CHCll3, EtOAc, BuOH, aqueous residue extracts of stem bark, and pure compounds	Antioxidant	15-Lipoxygenase inhibition, total phenolic content, and DPPH radical scavenging assay	[12]
80% EtOH crude, CHCl3, EtOAc, BuOH, aqueous residue, precipitate extracts of stem bark, and negative control (acetone, MeOH)	Antimicrobial	Agar disc diffusion method
MeOH extract of bark	Antihyperglycemic	Lowering serum glucose level in hyperglycemic mice following of glucose loading	[11]
	Antinociceptive	Acetic-acid-induced writhings in mice
MeOH extract of both leaf and stem powder	Anticancer activity	In vitro cell viability and In vivo screening assay against B16 mouse melanoma and EAC (ehrlich ascites carcinoma) in mice model	[13]
	chromatography characterization	TLC (qualitative and quantitative DPPH assay), HPLC, 1H NMR, FTIR spectral analysis, and bioautography screening
EtOH extracts of pneumatophores	Comparative antibacterial activity	Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) method	[54]