Table 7.

Effect of Alchornea laxiflora root extract on hot plate test.

Treatments	Dose (mg/kg)	Reactiontime (s)(mean ± SEM)	% inhibition
Control	10ml/kg	11.33 ± 0.52	–
Extract	75	16.70 ± 1.18a	47.39
	150	17.68 ± 1.27a	56.04
	225	19.09 ± 1.05c	68.49
Dichloromethane fraction	150	17.97 ± 0.80b	58.60
Ethyl acetate fraction	150	18.51 ± 0.75b	63.37
n-Butanol fraction	150	14.11 ± 0.22c	24.53
ASA	100	23.64 ± 1.69c	108.64

Data are expressed as mean ± SEM.

Significant at

^ap < 0.05,

^bp < 0.01,

^cp < 0.001 when compared to control n = 6.