Research Article
Ravi Babu Birudu and M. Jagadi
Abstract
Traditional medicinal plants having the different types of secondary products. The secondary products have great pharmaceutical importance. The secondary metabolites includes the tannins, saponins, catechins, phytoestrogens, mimosins. These products are extracted from the plants by different methods. These are called secondary metabolites. They showed anti-oxidant properties, anti-microbial properties, anti-inflammatory effect and anti cancer properties. Tannis, saponis, mimonins shows the major anticancer properties against breast, prostate and ovarian cancer. The studies proved that the anti cancer properties of secondary metabolites are the alternative medicine to allopathy.