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Ficus sycomorus (Linn) from the Mulberry family, is a large, spreading tree up to about 30 m tall with wide branches and a thick trunk extending to 3.5 m in diameter. In Nigeria, it is commonly known by the Hausas as “Farin Baure”, as “Ji ewu” in Igbo language and among the Yoruba people as “Epin”. 4 The microwave assisted extraction (MAE), is a method of extraction of phytochemicals from the plant material that works more favourably with polar solvent and it offers some advantages, over conventional extraction methods, such as faster extraction rates, purity of crude extracts, purity and higher recovery of isolates, improved stability, reduced processing costs, reduced energy and solvent usage. 6 Various solvents have been used to extract different phyto constituents and alcohol among other solvents, in any case, is a good all-purpose solvent for preliminary extraction. However, El Sayed and his co-workers reported that n butanol (BuOH) fraction of Ficus sycomorus leaves has strong antioxidant activity and the compounds isolated from it were found as major components and principally responsible for the antioxidant activity of F. sycomorus. Several bioactive chemical constituents such as alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids and phenolic compounds have been reported in Ficus sycomorus, 10 and the root bark of the plant is an important medicine used traditionally for the treatment of epilepsy, diarrhoea, dysentery, urinary tract, vaginal infections and phathologic hemorrhoid. 11 However, to the best of our knowledge there is no study on microwave assisted extraction (MAE) and the study on the phytochemicals characterization from the root bark of this plant is scanty.

Antibacterial Activity of a Triterpenoid from n-Butanol Extract of the Root Bark of Ficus sycomorus (Linn)