The ethno medicinal use of the plant is therefore due to the presence of these biologically active secondary metabolites. Anthraquinones exhibit some interesting in vivo biological activities, such as antimicrobial, antifungal, hypotensive, analgesic, anti-malarial, anti-oxidant, antileukemic and mutagenic functions . Tannins are used as astringents against diarrhea, as diuretics against stomach and duodenal tumors, and as anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, antioxidant and haemostatic pharmaceuticals . Alkaloids have many pharmacological activities including antihypertensive effects, antiarrhythmic effect, antimalarial activity, and anticancer actions . Terpenoids can have medicinal properties such as anti-carcinogenic, antimalarial, anti-ulcer, hepaticidal, antimicrobial or diuretic, antimalarial and anticancer drug . Saponins have medicinal properties such as antiviral, antifungal, membranepermeabilising, immune-stimulant, hypocholesterolaemic and ant carcinogenic and they have also been found to significantly affect growth, feed intake and reproduction in animals .