Potencjał roślin stosowanych w polskim tradycyjnym ziołolecznictwie

Plants traditionally used for centuries in herbal medicine and growing in Poland can be a good source of bioactive substances. However, their potential is not fully exploited, as they have not been thoroughly studied in terms of efficacy, safety and mechanisms of action. Therefore, the aim of the project resulting in this data is to investigate the anticancer, antibacterial and antifungal potential of selected medicinal plants and their mechanism of action. Plants used in Polish herbal medicine, such as : tansy, common chamomile, wild garlic,

peppermint, common nettle, St. John's wort, dandelion, meadow clover, wormwood, watercress, ground-ivy, yarrow, garden angelica, elcampane and valerian, were selected for the study. In one of the first stages of the project, the anticancer activity of plant extracts was tested in an in vitro model of colorectal cancer (Caco-2 cell line) and on normal cells (CCD841 CoTr cell line), using the XTT assay. This dataset contains information obtained by the XTT assay during spectrophotomeric reading on a microplate reader. Numbers 1-15 indicate the individual plants included in the study, while the letters A and W refer to the alcoholic and aqueous extracts tested in the study, respectively.