A Review on traditional plants and herbs are used to evaluation for their anticancer potential

India is the largest producer of medicinal plants and is appropriately call the “Botanical garden of the World”. The medicinal plants, besides having natural therapeutic values against various diseases, also provide high quality of food and raw materials for livelihood. Considerable works have been done on medicinal plants to treatment of cancer, and some plant products have been marketed as anticancer drugs, based on the traditional uses and scientific reports. These plants may promote host resistance against infection by re-stabilizing body equilibrium and conditioning the body tissues. Several reports illustrate that the anticancer activity of medicinal plants is due to the existence of antioxidants in them. Thus, the various combinations of the active components of these plants after isolation and identification can be made and have to be further assessed for their synergistic effects. In fact, the medicinal plants are easily obtainable, cheaper and possess no toxicity as compared to the modern (allopathic) drugs. Preparation of standardized dose and dosage regimen may play a critical role in the remedy of cancer. The rate with which cancer is continuing, it seems to have an urgent and effective exertion for making good health of humans as well as animals. There is a broad scope to derive potent anticancer agents from medicinal plants, which need thorough research.