“…In Asian countries, the leaves of this species are commonly used for the treatment of dermatitis, hepatitis, diarrhea and pyresis (Chen et al, 2000). The literature also shows that the polar extract from different parts (leaves, fruits and bark) of Terminalia catappa have shown the following biological activities: antimicrobial, antifungal (Fyhrquist et al, 2002), antioxidant (Masuda et al, 1999;Chen and Li, 2005;Pandya et al, 2013), antimetastatic (Yeh et al, 2012(Yeh et al, , 2014, anti-inflammatory (Fan et al, 2004;Lin et al, 1999), hepatoprotective (Lin et al, 1997;Chen et al, 2000;Tang et al, 2006;Chen and Li, 2005), mutagenic (Mininel et al, 2014), aphrodisiac (Ratnasooriya and Dharmasiri, 2000) and antidiabetic (Nagappa et al, 2003). The literature also shows that the polar extract from different parts (leaves, fruits and bark) of Terminalia catappa have shown the following biological activities: antimicrobial, antifungal (Fyhrquist et al, 2002), antioxidant (Masuda et al, 1999;Chen and Li, 2005;Pandya et al, 2013), antimetastatic (Yeh et al, 2012(Yeh et al, , 2014, anti-inflammatory (Fan et al, 2004;Lin et al, 1999), hepatoprotective (Lin et al, 1997;Chen et al, 2000;Tang et al, 2006;Chen and Li, 2005), mutagenic (Mininel et al, 2014), aphrodisiac (Ratnasooriya and Dharmasiri, 2000) and antidiabetic (Nagappa et al, 2003).…”