In-vitro cytotoxicity studies on methanolic leaf extract of embelia ribes burm f - an important traditional medicinal plant of Kerala

Medicinal plants play a key role to cure the many diseases from time immemorial. The usage of medicinal plants in traditional medicinal system is the vital process of India. Cancer is one of the killing diseases and causes severe defects on human being. There are many types of cancer diseases in human beings affects the different organs. There is no proper medicine to cure such kind of cancer diseases. In the present study thein-vitro cytotoxicity potential of methanolic leaf extract of Embelia ribes Burm. F. was carried out against three cell lines U87, HepG2 and MCF7. The results revealed that the cytotoxicity potential of the leaf was increased when the concentration of leaf extract increases. Among the three cell lines the highest percentage of growth inhibition was observed against U87 cell lines. Based on the results, the leaf of the plant can be used to prepare anticancer drug with proper standardization methods.