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 illnesses such as diarrhea, m
alaria,
ringw
orm, jaundice and intestinal worm. The main aim was to determine the acute toxicity of Senna didymob
otya
roots. The methanol total and dichloromethane crude root extracts of S. didymobotrya were the most t
oxic and
they killed 80% of mice at a dose of 5000m
g/kg body weight with an LD
50
of 1927mg/kg after a period of 14days
.
