Cancer is a major public health burden in both developed and developing countries. Anticancer activity is the effect of natural and synthetic or biological and chemical agents to reverse, suppress or prevent carcinogenic progression. Several synthetic agents are used to cure the disease but they have their toxicity and hence the research is going on to investigate the plant derived chemotherapeutic agents. Plants are important source for exploring new product of medicinal value in view of various bioactive present in their plants. Ayurveda and other traditional medicinal system for the treatment of diabetes describe a number of plants used as herbal drugs. Hence, they play on important role as alternative medicine due to less side effects and low costs. Now a days these phytochemical constituents finds use as nutroceuticals that have long term health promoting or majar phytomedicinal compounds. Phytonutrients may serve as antioxidant properties and enhances the metabolism. Herbal medicines have been the highly esteemed source of medicine throughout the human history. They are widely used today indicating that herbs are a growing part of modern, high-tech medicine. The hydroalcoholic extract at oral dose of 200mg/kg body weight exhibited a significant (p< 0.05) changes in the levels of hematological profiles, ALT, SGOT, SGPT, total bilirubin and total protein and compared to DLA induced group. Thus it could be concluded that the hydroalcoholic extract of Ipomoea obscura possesses significant anticancer properties
