Abstract:
Medicinal plants play an important role in the treatment of various
illnesses
in Kenya and the whole
world.
Senna didymobotya
is one of such plants used traditionally in Kenya to treat illness
es
such as
diarrhea
, malaria
,
ringworm, jaundice and intestinal
worm
.
The main
aim
of t
his study was to
analyze the phy
tochemical composition
of the plant
roots
. Chemical tests for the screening and
identification of bioactive chemical cons
tituents in the medicinal plant was
carried out in
crude root
extracts using
standard procedures
.
From
the
analysis
,
it was demonstrated that
steroids,
terpenoids,
anthra
quinones, tannins, saponins, glycosides, flavonoids, alkaloids and phenols
were found
i
n
the
roots of the plant
