resistance is more frequent. The cause of this
resistance is due to the presence of compounds in the
body that detect anti-cancer drugs in the cell to expel
it. Apoptosis, induction and detoxification also play
a role in the formation of body resistance to
drugs.The mechanism in which cancer drug
resistance functions provides important information
in avoiding increasing levels of resistance to
chemotherapy. In addition, resistance also has
implications and pharmacokinetics for drugs that are
generally used (Brown et al., 2016).
Indonesia is rich in biodiversity that has the
potential to be developed as a drug or drug raw
material that the function as an antioxidant with low
cytotoxicity. The research on plants such as herbs,
spices, and plants that ride on other plants, such as
parasite is widely carried out because of its potential
(Wulandari et al., 2019). As an antioxidant. In
Europe, parasites especially the leaves, which have
been studied to be used as drugs in the treatment of
cancer deadly cure. In this parasite leaf there are
various kinds of substances that can help treat this
dangerous disease. Since the 16th century,
Europeans have used parasites as a powerful herbal
remedy for treating neurological disorders such as
epilepsy. For someone who has epilepsy, he tends to
have difficulty controlling his own body and uses
the benefits of parasitic leaves which are believed to
be very effective in overcoming this health problem
(Kumolosasi et al., 2018). Parasite is a semi-
parasitic plant, which was originally considered a
detrimental plant because it damages commercial
plants. But “benalu” has the potential as a medicinal
herb. Traditionally a number of parasitic species
since ancient times have been used to prevent and
treat various diseases including as cough medicines,
cancer, diuretics, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial,
wound or mold infection. The parasite is a type of
plant that propagates on other plants and takes food
from attached plants. Coffee parasite is a type of
plant that lives attached to the coffee plant as its
host. In general, this parasitic plant grows well in
regions that have a tropical climate like in Indonesia.
Many parasites grow on several other types of plants
such as mangoes, coffee, starfruit and many others.
In the past, not many people knew the benefits of
this parasite coffee plant because it was considered
to interfere with the plants that were used as hosts.
Because this process of foraging from parasites
originates from the host that is attached to it, the
plant that is attached becomes lack of food reserves
and cannot grow properly (Ojezele, Erhirhie and
Arojojoye, 2016).
One of the plants that is very good to be a host is
a coffee plant.The parasite of this coffee is usually
attached to the branches and also the trunk of the
coffee tree. Often this plant is found in the
Mandiling Natal area in North Sumatra. The types of
parasites attached to this coffee plant include
parasites which have many benefits that can be used
to cure various diseases. As the attached coffee
plant, parasites also absorb some of the contents of
the coffee plant so the parasite has more or less the
same content in the coffee plant. Usually coffee
plants that have the sap can eventually be used as an
alternative to treating cancer through parasites.
Chemical content that contained in parasites are
phenolic, tannin, amino acid, carbohydrate, alkaloid
and saponin. Phenolic compounds are very active as
antioxidant. Phenolic compounds have a structure
that can easily contribute hydrogen or electrons to
acceptors such as reactive oxygen species or peroxyl
groups from fat, so they can reduce the activity of
oxygen and peroxyl radicals (Ojezele, Erhirhie and
Arojojoye, 2016). Flavonoid is a polyphenol
compound that is found in epidermis of the leaves of
fruit peels and has an important role in human life as
an antioxidant, antimutagenic, antineoplastic and
vasodilator activity. a compound consisting of 15
carbon atoms which are generally spread over the
plant world. More than 2000 plant-derived
flavonoids have been identified, but there are three
groups commonly studied, namely anthocyanin,
flavonols, and flavones (Yulianti et al.,
2018).\Chemical contents that contained in parasites
are flavonoid, tannin, amino acid, carbohydrate,
alkaloid, and saponin. Based on various researches,
compounds in parasites that are thought to have
anticancer activity are flavonoids, which are
quercetin which are inhibitors of DNA enzymes for
cancer cell topoisomerase. Quercetin is the main
flavonoid compound contained in the parasite. The
compound is a taxonomic marker of the
Loranthaceae family (Hueza et al., 2019).
Parasite of coffee is a type of plant whose life
does not require soil for its media. It lives as a
parasite, sticks to the host cell, and absorbs the
nutrients its has so that cause death to the host cell.
The presence of Chlorophyll causes parasites have
the ability to carry out photosynthesis. However, this
plant is not able to take water and nutrients directly
from the soil which makes it as a parasite plant
(Poelman et al., 2019). The using of parasites as
traditional medicine has been known for a long time
to cure various diseases. Parasite is used by the
society as an anti- inflammatory drug, pain reliever
(analgesic), antivirus, anticancer, etc. For example