CANCER

Scientific evidence on herbs used in Ayurveda proven to have anticancer property

Name of the herb	Indications	References
Abrus precatorius	Yoshida sarcoma (rats) Fibrosarcoma (mice) Ascites tumour cells	Subbareddy and Sirsi [67]
Albizzia lebbeck	Sarcoma 180 (mice)	Dhar et al. [68]
Allium sativum	Sarcoma (rat)	Hu et al. [69]
Aloe vera	Yoshida AH-130 ascite hepatoma (pleural tumour) human neuroectodermal tumours	Corsi et al. [70], Pecere et al. [71]
Alstonia scholaries	HSI human sarcoma benzo(a)pyrene induced forestomach carcinoma	Dhar et al. [68], Jagetia et al. [72]
Amura rohitaka	Leukaemia	Prasad and Deshpande [73], Rabi and Gupta [74]
Anacardium occidentale	Hepatoma 129	Dhar et al. [68]
Asparagus racemosa	Human epidermoid carcinoma	Dhar et al. [68]
Bacopa monniera	Walker carcinosarcoma 256	Bhakuni et al. [75]
Berberis aristata	Human epidermal carcinoma of the nasopharynx, N-nitrosodiethylamine induced carcinogenesis	Bhakuni et al. [75], Anis et al. [76]
Boswellia serrata	Human epidermal carcinoma of the nasopharynx,  Leukaemia and brain tumours	Dhar et al. [68] Hostanska et al. [77]
Calotropis gigantea	Human epidermal carcinoma of the nasopharynx	Bhakuni et al. [75], Dhar et al. [68]
Curcuma longa	Fibro sarcoma,  Preclinical and clinical trials review	Sriganth and Premalatha [78] , Aggarwal et al. [79]
Datura metel	Human epidermal carcinoma of the nasopharynx	Dhar et al. [68]
Erythrina suberosa	Sarcoma 180	Dhar et al. [68]
Euphorbia hirta	Freund virus leukaemia	Dhar et al. [68]
Gynandropis pentaphylla	Hepatoma 129	Dhar et al. [68]
Heliotropium indicum	P-388 lymphocytic leukaemia	Pal et al. [80]
Hygrophila spinosa	Dalton’s lymphoma, Ehrlich ascites carcinoma and Sarcoma-180	Maiti [81] , Mazumdar et al. [82]
Ixora undulata	P-388 lymphocytic leukaemia	Dhawan et al. [83]
Juniperus indica	Human epidermoid carcinoma of the nasopharynx	Dhawan et al. [83]
Luffa cylindrica	Schwartz leukaemia	Bhakuni et al. [84]
Melia azedarach	Walker carcinosarcoma 256	Bhakuni et al. [75]
Moringa oleifera	Human epidermoid lymphocytic leukaemia Skin papillomagenesis	Dhawan et al. [83] Bharali et al. [85]
Nerium indicum	Erlish ascites carcinoma	Pal et al. [80]
sNigella sativa	Lewis lung carcinoma, Colon cancer	Dhar et al. [68] Salim and Fukushima [86]
Ocimum sanctum	Skin and liver tumours	Dubey et al. [87]
Paederia foetida	Human epidermoid carcinoma of the nasopharynx	Dhar et al. [68]
Picrorrhiza kurroa	Hepatic cancers	Dhar et al. [68]
Plumbago zeylanica	Hepatoma	Parimala and Sachdanandam [88]
Rubia cordifolia	P-388, L-1210, B-16 melanoma, colon 388, Lewis lung carcinoma, mammary carcinoma	Itokawa et al. [89]
Taxus buccata	Cytotoxic against various tumours	Melado et al. [90]
Vinca rosea	P-1534, carcinoma of the breast, cervix, kidney, lung and ovary	Rastogi and Mehrotra [91]
Withania somnifera	Various tumours	Dhar et al. [68]