“…Several components such as β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, ursolic acid, oleanolic acid, brassicasterol, and Mirabilis antiviral protein, rotenoids (mirabijalone A-D, boeravinones C and F) were isolated from the aerial parts and roots of M. jalapa (Siddiqui et al, 1990, Siddqui et al, 1994Yi-Fen et al, 2002). Aoki et al (2008) and Oskay et al (2007) reported that M. jalapa had numerous biological activities such as antispasmodic, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal and protein synthesis inhibition. M. jalapa is used in herbal medicine for the treatment of diarrhea, dysentery, conjunctivitis, edema, inflammation, swellings, muscular pain and malarial (Daniel, 2006).…”