Abstract

Herbal medicines are affordable and cause minimal side effects and this has contributed to the high patronage of herbal medicine recently. Chromolaena odorata L. is also traditionally used for the treatment of various ailments in humans and animals such as wound healing.
Sida acuta is also useful in treating diseases such as headache, cold, fever, skin diseases, urinary diseases, ulcer, snake bite, facial paralysis. The researcher used Chromolaena odorata L. and Sida acuta Burm. F. that are found in Assin Andoe in the Assin South District. The researcher picked 15g each of the powdered leaves of C. odorata and S. acuta making 30g and mixed them in a beaker. Distil water, 70% ethanol, 30% ethanol and 30% methanol were the solvent used to perform maceration extraction of the mixture. The researcher ran a qualitative test to assess the phytochemical compounds present in the various extracts of the herbal mixture. It was revealed in the experiment that saponins, flavonoids, alkaloids, tannins, steroids, terpenoids, phenol, phlobatannin, gum and mucilage are the phytochemicals present in the various extracts of the mixture of Chromolaena odorata and Sida acuta leaves. Glycosides and anthraquinones on the other hand were absent in all the extracts.
 Again, it was concluded that 30% methanol (v/v) and distil water are most effective in extracting Chromolaena odorata L. and Sida acuta Burm. It was recommended that quantitative assessment of the phytochemicals present in the herbal mixture should be performed to investigate the relative abundance of the phytochemicals present.