Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Cytotoxicity assay results revealed that the hexane, DCM, EA and MeTH of EI were found to have IC50 values of over 30 µg/ml against MCF-7, HT-29 and CEM-SS cancer cell lines after 72 h incubation. Thus, the four extracts of EI were conferred non-eﬀective in inducing cell death towards the cancer cell lines MCF-7, HT-29 and CEM-SS, following guidelines of the American National Cancer Institute. It has been reported previously that some plant extracts have shown to have multi-biological activities of possessing both antibacterial and antioxidant activities [35–37]. In this respect, our study of the EI extracts has demonstrated such multi-biological activities to exist, suggesting the presence of chemical constituents in EI responsible for such behavior. These results suggest that the EI possess antioxidant prop- erties and could be used as alternative natural antioxidants. 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