Bacopa and Cancer Research

In 1995, Elangovan V, Govindasamy S, Ramamoorthy N, Balasubramaanian conducted in vitro studies on the anticancer activity of Bacopa extract. The saw that Bacopa saponin fractions have cytotoxic activity for sarcoma-180 cells. It is thought this might be due to Bacopa's inhibition of DNA replication in the cancerous cell line. Human testing awaits ( Elangovan V, Govindasamy S, Ramaoorthy N, Balasubramanian K. In vitro studies on the anti cancer activity of Bacopa monniera. Fitoterapia 1995; 66; 211-215) .