The proximate, phytochemicals, minerals, and anti-nutritional content of Ficus thonningii seed obtained from Nasarawa, Nasarawa State, Nigeria were investigated. proximate analysis revealed that the is abundant in ash (8.36 ± 0.77 %), protein (27.52 0.17 %) carbohydrate (40.02%) but contains low moisture (8.76 0.06 fibre (2.81 0.09 %). minerals showed very high quantities Ca (2067.50mg/100g), P...

The methanolic stem bark extract of Ficus thonningii (Moraceae) was subjected to preliminary phytochemical screening and in vitro antimicrobial tests. The phytochemical tests was carried out using standard methods of analysis and these investigations revealed the presence of alkaloids, anthraquinones, carbohydrates, flavonoids, saponins and tannins. The antimicrobial activity of the plant extra...

The feeding trial was conducted to determine carcass characteristics of broiler chickens fed varying dietary levels Ficus thonningii leaf meal. A total ninety six (96) four weeks old broilers were used for the trial. birds randomly assigned treatments namely; 0 g/kg (control) T1, 2 T2, 3.5 T3, and 5 T4 meal in diets, respectively. Each treatment had 24 8 per replicate. results showed that signi...

In vitro antioxidant and erythrocyte protecting activities by aqueous extract of Ficus thonningii leaves on blood cells were studied in acetaminophen treated rats. The extract was safe at limit dose of 5000 mg kg(-1) body weight. The extract demonstrated dose dependent antihemolytic effect at dose levels between 50 and 200 mg kg(-1) body weight. The lowest antihemolytic effect was observed at d...

This study evaluated the in vitro and vivo free radical scavenging potentials of methanol extract Ficus thonningii leaf its liquid chromatography-mass spectrometer (LCMS) profiling. The qualitative phytochemical screening was carried out results show presence tannins, flavonoids, saponins glycoside triterpenes. Antioxidant activities were reducing power shows a value 0.53 ± 0.007 with significa...

Faced with critical shortages of staff, long queues, and stigma at public health facilities in Livingstone, Zambia, persons who suffer from HIV/AIDS-related diseases use medicinal plants to manage skin infections, diarrhoea, sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, cough, malaria, and oral infections. In all, 94 medicinal plant species were used to manage HIV/AIDS-related diseases. Most r...