Chromatographic fingerprinting analysis of secondary metabolites present in ethanolic extract of Acokanthera schimperi leaves by high-performance thin-layer chromatography technique

Human beings have been using plants since ancient times for many purposes, and early on, they especially developed several ways of using plant resources to counteract diseases.[1] Ethnobotany is the interdisciplinary scientific field which covers all aspects of interactions and relationships between plants and people. From the ancient time onwards, the humans are used medicinal plants to treat diverse ailments. Even though the advent of allopathic medicine somehow minimizes the role of medicinal plants in favor of synthetic drugs, a number of modern drug discoveries have been based on medicinal plants used by indigenous peoples.[2] It was estimated that by