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| Potential Properties of Himbabao (Broussonetia Luzonica B.) As Anticancer, Antifungal and Antimicrobial
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Jennifer N. Quintos, Ghinalyn M. Acollador, Everly Joy J. Ubaldo, Queen Berly C. Aga
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Abstract:
Plants are known for its holistic use such as producers of food, clothes, and others for animal and human consumption and a component for medicinal practices. They have been an important source of drug products since ancient times, containing secondary metabolites which are necessary for the survival of the species (Choa JB D. et al, 2016). Nowadays, plants like Himbabao still cope up to the world's metamorphosis, thus discovering their potentials to be a treatment for some diseases. According to Philippine Statistics Authority (PNA), the second highest cause of mortality was cancer with 60,470 or 10.4% recorded cases in 2016. Likewise, according to World Health Organization (WHO, 2019), pneumonia is the single largest infectious caused by a number of infectious agents, including viruses, bacteria, and fungi that led to the 808,694 death cases of children under the age of 5 in 2017. This study primarily aimed to determine possible uses of Himbabao plant leaves based on the abundance of phytochemicals as revealed by the phytochemical screening and the results of bioassay and experimental treatment on onion roots and mung beans. Thus, the results showed that there were carbohydrates, reducing sugars, flavonoids, tannins, glycosides, phytosterols being detected. Thus, based on the experiment, the 75% and 100% concentration inhibited the growth of onion roots. Based on several studies, flavonoids and phytosterols are anticancer agents while tannins are antifungal and antibacterial. Therefore, the study of Himbabao extract has been proven significant in the scientific community because of these reasons.
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