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ABSTRACT
Terminalia catappa (T. catappa) is a folklore plant whose leaves, roots and stem bark are being used to treat various infectious diseases such as dermatosis and hepatitis. However, plant parts like these are often transformed via pyrolysis to charcoal and ashes to achieve a braoder spectrum of activity. Over the years, charcoal has been known as an anti poisonous substance with little or no medicinal relevance. This study biochemically transformed the leaves of T. catappa to ashes, and evaluated the elemental, antibacterial/probiotic/antifungal potential of the leaf ash. The leaves were gotten fresh from the tree, dried under the sun and subjected to pyrolysis at about 600 °C.The ash debris gotten was pulverized to smooth powder and then subjected to inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP AES) for elemental analysis. Its effect was investigated on normal intestinal flora bacteria (Lactic Acid bacillus) and some other pathogenic organisms (Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Bacillus subtilis and Enterococcus faecalis).
