Plants have been used for thousands of years to flavor and conserve food, to treat health
disorders and to prevent diseases including epidemics. The knowledge of their healing …

Medicinal plants have been used in virtually all cultures as a source of medicine. Assurance
of the safety, quality, and efficacy of medicinal plants and herbal products has now become …

The increasing incidence of drug-resistant pathogens has drawn the attention of the
pharmaceutical and scientific communities towards studies on the potential antimicrobial …

Plants produce a great diversity of phytochemicals, the beneficial properties of which have
been used by humans for centuries since the advent of human civilization. With the …

The increasing incidence of drug-resistant pathogens raises an urgent need to identify and
isolate new bioactive compounds from medicinal plants using standardized modern …

Pharmaceutical and scientific communities have recently received the attention of the
medicinal plants and various publications have documented the therapeutic worth of natural …

Background: The use of plants for healing purposes predates recorded history and forms the
origin of much of modern medicine. Many conventional drugs originated from plant sources …

The beneficial medicinal effects of plant materials typically result from the secondary
products present in the plant although, it is usually not attributed to a single compound but a …

Antibiotics provide the main basis for the therapy of microbial (bacterial and fungal)
infections. Since the discovery of these antibiotics and their uses as chemotherapeutic …

Medicinal plants constitute the base of health care systems in many societies. The recovery
of the knowledge and practices associated with these plant resources are part of an …