Table 1.

Phytochemical screening of E. abyssinica methanol extract and fractions

Groups of chemical constituents	Methanol extract	n-hexane fraction	Ethyl acetate fraction	n-butanol fraction	Aqueous residue fraction
Alkaloids	+	+	+	+	+
Flavonoids	+	+	+	+	+
Coumarins	+	-	+	+	+
Phenols	+	-	+	+	+
Tannins	+	-	+	+	+
Saponins	+	-	+	+	+
Steroids	-	-	-	-	-
Chalcones	+	-	+	+	+
Terpernoids	+	-	+	-	-
Cardiac glycosides	+	-	-	+	+

+: presence; -: absence.