The simplest approach would be to use an ODS (C18) column. Apply your metanol extract to the column and wash the column 5-6 times with ultra pure distilled water followed by a 60-100% methanol gradient.
A very simple method is to dry your extract and use liquid liquid extraction with water/ ethylacetate mixture. If your bioactive compounds are not very polar they will dissolve in ethyacetate and your sugars to ethylacetate. To accomplish that you should completely remove methanol. By this method you can not be sure for the proportion of your compound that ends up in water..
My extracts containing more polar compounds I guess. i tried this method by yield is very less and ethyle acetate fraction not showing any significant pharmacological applications.
You said your ethyl acetate fraction has not significant pharmacological applications. And have you tried the remanent fraction, it means the aqueous fraction??. By other side which bio assays you did for the organic fraction?.
I used aqueous fraction (but dissolved in DMSO) for invitro alpha amylase, alpha glucosidase inhibition assay and anti inflammatory assay (by membrane stability method).