14 Medicinal properties of Euphorbia tirucalli L. have been investigated in vitro. Water extract from 15 the plant latex was freeze dried and tested against 3 digestive enzymes and showed IC50 as 16 39. 8±0.22, 79.43±0.38 and 316.22±0.3 for lipase, alpha-glucosidase and alpha-amylase, 17 respectively. These results were incomparable with drugs such as acarbose and orlistat.18 Antioxidant property showed that the IC50 values of E. tirucalli and Trolox were 79.43±0.69 and 19 3.1 ±0.92 respectively. Also, the plant extract exhibited a range of antimicrobial activity against 20 gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and pathogenic yeast and fungi. Cytotoxicity of the plant 21 extract tested on Caco-2 cells was determined using MTT method. The effect was linear and almost 22 0.5 mg/ml extract has inhibited 50% of cells relative to the control. Euphorbia tirucalli showed 23 promising activities and is potential source of active ingredient with functional properties. 24 Key words: Euphorbia tirucalli L, bioactive properties, cytotoxicity, Caco-2. 25 Introduction 26 Phytogenic chemicals play an essential value in drugs investigations. Many of drug candidates and 27 clinically approved therapeutic agents have been isolated from plant products [1]. In fact, several 28 isolated molecules from herbal sources utilized in medicine, have the most potent therapeutic 29 activity among chemically produced medicines such as vincristine, taxol, atropine, morphine, 30 pilocarpine and many others [2]. The potent physiological and therapeutic effects of plant materials 31 usually resulted from the effects of plant secondary metabolic compounds. 32 Diabetes mellitus, obesity, and overweight are dangerous metabolic disorders and considered the 33 major reasons for mortality and morbidity for thousands of people in many of the developing 34 countries. However, different investigations demonstrated that obesity and overweight are 3 35 associated with an increased risk of diabetes. In fact, both of the obesity and overweight elevate 36 the costs of immense health care because they are significantly associated with diabetes, arthritis, 37 asthma, high level of blood cholesterol, high blood pressure and poor quality of life [3].38 Malignant tumor is commonly known as cancer which is a large group of diseases that may affect 39 every part of the human body with a rapid formation of abnormal cells and usually distributed to 40 other organs. However, the death from cancer usually occurred from the metastases process and 41 considered a second leading cause of death world widely. In 2018 cancer was responsible for about 42 9.6 million deaths with 70% of deaths were from middle-and low -income regions [4][5][6].43 Evidently, the anti-microbial resistance is a global medical and public health concern as it is not 44 limited to bacterial pathogens but also distributed to the parasites, fungi and viruses. Moreover, 45 the most therapeutically effective and safe drugs have already been developed, and newer effective 46 drugs often have more toxicity...