“…The popular uses of Phyllanthus species reported the treatment of dysentery, gonorrhea, urinary discharges, kidney and bladder stones (Unander et al, 1995). Besides its traditional use, other pharmacological properties were also investigated such as hypoglycemic (Hukeri et al, 1988;Navarro et al, 2004), anti-hepatotoxic (Prakash et al, 1995;Naaz et al, 2007), antimalarial (Tona et al, 1999), antinociceptive (Santos et al, 1995), antiinflammatory (Kassuya et al, 2003(Kassuya et al, , 2005(Kassuya et al, , 2006, antiviral (Ogata et al, 1992;Qian-Cutrone et al, 1996), hypolipidemic (Khanna et al, 2002), antihyperuricemic (Murugaiyah & Chan, 2009) and as wound healing (Shanbhag et al, 2010).…”