The Bridelia cathartica Bertol (Euphorbiaceae) species is used in Mozambican folk medicine for th... more The Bridelia cathartica Bertol (Euphorbiaceae) species is used in Mozambican folk medicine for the treatment of various ailments including infectious and inflammatory diseases, but scientific investigations aiming to determine its therapeutic potential are scarce. In the present study, the total phenolics, antioxidant and antibacterial activities of the crude hydroethanolic extracts and ethyl acetate fractions of the leaves and stem of B. cathartica were determined using standard procedures. The phenolics found did not show significant variations in the different analyzed samples (p < 0.05) and showed maximum values of 435.090 ± 15.507 and 436.970 ± 15.310 milligrams of gallic acid equivalents (mgGAE) per gram of the dry extract for the samples of stem and leaves respectively. The highest antioxidant activity was exhibited by the leaves sample in the DPPH method (EC50 = 3.63 ± 0.12 μg/mL) and phosphomolybdenum complex method (57.88 ± 0.57%). Most of the extracts and fractions fro...
The Bridelia cathartica Bertol (Euphorbiaceae) species is used in Mozambican folk medicine for th... more The Bridelia cathartica Bertol (Euphorbiaceae) species is used in Mozambican folk medicine for the treatment of various ailments including infectious and inflammatory diseases, but scientific investigations aiming to determine its therapeutic potential are scarce. In the present study, the total phenolics, antioxidant and antibacterial activities of the crude hydroethanolic extracts and ethyl acetate fractions of the leaves and stem of B. cathartica were determined using standard procedures. The phenolics found did not show significant variations in the different analyzed samples (p < 0.05) and showed maximum values of 435.090 ± 15.507 and 436.970 ± 15.310 milligrams of gallic acid equivalents (mgGAE) per gram of the dry extract for the samples of stem and leaves respectively. The highest antioxidant activity was exhibited by the leaves sample in the DPPH method (EC50 = 3.63 ± 0.12 μg/mL) and phosphomolybdenum complex method (57.88 ± 0.57%). Most of the extracts and fractions fro...
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