TLC and HPTLC studies were carried out with alcoholic and aqueous extracts following prescribed
methods [20 ,21]. A Camag HPTLC system equipped with a Linomat V applicator, a Camag TLC scanner
3 and WinCATS-4 software for interpretation of data were used for the HPTLC studies. Aluminum plates
(10×10 cm) precoated with silica gel 60F254 (E Merck) as an adsorbent were used. All the solvents used were
of HPLC grade obtained from MERCK. The plates were developed using Chloroform: Methanol (9:1) after a 12 h saturation period.