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The use of evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine is increasing rapidly.  Eleucine indica  (EI) is traditionally used in ailments associated with liver and kidneys. The therapeutic benefit of the medicinal plants is often attributed to their antioxidant properties. Therefore, the aim of this study was to screen the hexane, dicholoromethane, ethyl acetate (EA) and methanol extracts (MeTH) of EI for their antioxidant, antibacterial and anti-cancer effects using total phenolic contents (TPCs) and DPPH, disc diffusion method and MTT cytotoxicity assays, respectively. The MeTH was showed to have the highest TPC and scavenging activity (77.7%) on DPPH assay, followed by EA (64.5%), hexane (47.19%) and DCM (40.83%) extracts, whereas the MeTH showed no inhibitory effect on all tested bacteria strains. However, the EA extract exhibited a broad spectrum antibacterial activity against all tested bacteria except  Bacillus subtilis , in which this bacterium was found to be resistant to all EI extracts. Meanwhile, hexane extract was demonstrated to have a remarkable antibacterial activity against methicillin resistant  Staphylococcus aureus  (MRSA) and  Pseudomonas aeruginosa , while the dicholoromethane extract did not exhibit significant activity against  P. aeruginosa . None of the extracts showed significant cytotoxic activity towards MCF-7, HT-29 and CEM-SS human cancer cell lines after 72 h incubation time (IC 50  > 30  μ g/ml). These results demonstrate that the extract prepared from the EI possesses antioxidant activity  in vitro  in addition to antibacterial properties. Further investigations are needed to verify the antioxidant effects  in vitro  and  in vivo .

Eleucine indicaPossesses Antioxidant, Antibacterial and Cytotoxic Properties