PHYTOPHARMACOLOGICAL REVIEW ON ANTICANCER ACTIVITY OF ABRUS PRECATORIUS

Abrus precatorius L. is spread widely across the Himalayas to Southern India and Ceylon.Each part of the plant has different medicinal purposes.A thorough search of the literature was done to find scientific research that had been published in electronic databases.More than 200 scientific publications from different global resources, such as Scopus, Google Scholar, and PubMed, were searched using the following keywords: " Abrus precatorius ", "chemical composition", "pharmacological effects," and "anti-cancer."The main activities linked to the seed include antioxidant, antiplatelet, and anticancer.The plant has been shown to include a wide range of phytochemicals with varying therapeutic effects on the body.Moreover, the plant has drawn interest as an anti-cancer drug because of its unique characteristic of lectin, which results from varying glycosylation on the cell surface linked to invasion, metastasis, and malignancy.