DOI: 10.36347/sajp

Pages: 268-273

Plants are the almost exclusive source of medicine with qualities for thousands of years. Mainly on traditional remedies such as herbs for their history it has been used as a popular folk medicine. The chemical compounds in solanum nigrum help in treating aliments like liver diseases, cancer, diabetes, and kidney diseases by functioning as antioxidants. The present study focuses on the analysis of the chloroform extract of solanum nigrum leaves by GC-MS. The study revealed the presence of 23 phyto components such as palmitic acid, phytol, hexacontan, Ethyl linoleolate. The mass spectra of these compounds were matched with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Library.