“…It has bioavailability enhancing activity for some drugs (Nirala et al, 2007(Nirala et al, , 2008. Piperine is known to exhibit a variety of biological activities including antiinflammatory (Ying et al, 2013), antioxidant (Jain & Mishra, 2011), antithyroid (Vijayakumar & Nalini, 2006), antimutagenic (Srinivasan, 2007), antitumor (Li et al, 2011), antidepressant (Mao et al, 2011), and hepatoprotective activity (Sahu et al, 2012). Curcumin is a hydrophobic polyphenol derived from the rhizome of the herb Curcuma longa has a wide spectrum of biological and pharmacological activities, including antioxidant (Sehgal et al, 2012), antiinflammatory (Abarikwu et al, 2014), antimicrobial and anticarcinogenic (Jagadeesh et al, 2009), hepatoprotective (Rajesh et al, 2010), and nephro-protective (Tarasub et al, 2011).…”