The application provides a cattail extract capable of preventing and treating
breast cancer and an application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of biological
medicine. The cattail extract is prepared by the following steps: peeling cattails,
drying and crushing cattail
flesh to obtain cattail
flesh powder; mixing the cattail
flesh powder with water to extract, filtering to obtain filtrate and residue; concentrating the filtrate to obtain a concentrate, mixing the concentrate with an
ethanol solution, standing, taking the precipitate and
drying to obtain
dry powder 1; mixing the residue with an
ethanol solution, ultrasonic extraction, taking the extract and
drying to obtain
dry powder 2; and mixing the
dry powder 1 and the dry
powder 2 to obtain the cattail extract. The cattail extract has the advantages of sufficient extraction of active ingredients, various effective components and strong overall anti-tumor effect, and can achieve an ideal effect of preventing and treating
breast cancer. The cattail extract is combined with
capecitabine, which can synergistically enhance the anti-
breast cancer effect, reverse
drug resistance, reduce toxic side effects, and greatly improve the treatment tolerance and safety.