Abstract

INVITRO ANTI CANCER ACTIVITY OF SIDDHA HERBAL FORMULATION KODIVELI CHOORANAM AGAINST COLORECTAL CANCER

Kumudha V.* and Mohamed Musthafa M.

Abstract

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in both developed and developing countries and continues to be a major public health problem in many parts of the world. Colorectal Cancer is the 3rd leading cause of Cancer death in each sex and second overall in men and women combined. Integrated medicine would be having immense positive effect over the existing. Kodiveli Chooranam (KC) is one of the traditional Siddha Polyherbal formulation. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the anti-cancer activity of Kodiveli chooranam by MTT assay in HT-29 (Human colorectal adenocarcinoma) cell line. Results shown that the drug, Kodiveli chooranam reduces the cell viability to 39% at the concentration of 100 μg/mL.

Keywords: Kodiveli Chooranam, In Vitro cell line study, Anticancer activity, Colorectal Cancer, Growth inhibitory activity.