Comparing Iron content in selected medicinal plants
- Author
- Banda, Patience
- Title
- Comparing Iron content in selected medicinal plants
- Abstract
- Anaemia cases are on the rise in Zimbabwe. Due to tough economic situations, a number of individuals are failing to afford the required diet and medication. The study aimed at comparing iron content in selected traditional medicines, so that they could be recommended as an affordable remedy for anaemia. Plants were collected, dried, powdered and ashed. The ash was then filtered using sulphuric acid before being titrated against potassium permanganate. The results from the titrations were used to calculate the number of moles, and hence the mass of iron in each plant extract.
- Date
- 2022
- Publisher
- BUSE
- Keywords
- Iron content
- Medicinal plants
- Supervisor
- Prof. Dzomba, P.
