Natural medicine has become a popular form of healthcare worldwide. Its impact on global
healthcare delivery has progressed significantly over the years. The contribution of natural …

Plants have been used as a source of medicine throughout history and continue to serve as
the basis for many pharmaceuticals used today. Although the modern pharmaceutical …

An overview is given on current efforts in drug development based on plant-derived natural
products. Emphasis is on projects which have advanced to clinical development …

Natural products (NPs), a nature's reservoir possessing enormous structural and functional
diversity far beyond the current ability of chemical synthesis, are now proving themselves as …

Natural compounds, which have evolved their function over millions of years, are often more
efficient than man-made compounds if a specific biological activity is needed, eg as an …

Despite the advent of biotechnology and modern methods of combinatorial chemistry and
rational drug design, nature still plays a surprisingly important role as a source of new …

This work presents a definitive interpretation of the current status of and future trends in
natural products—a dynamic field at the intersection of chemistry and biology concerned …

More than 80,000 of the 250,000 species of flowering plants have been reported to be used
by human civilizations for medicinal purposes [1]. This figure could be higher as information …

The medicinal use of natural prod-ucts—compounds that are derived from natural sources
such as plants, animals or micro-organisms—precedes recorded human history probably by …

Medicinal plants are a rich repository of various biologically active molecules that have
various pharmacological effects in mammals. The majority of the world's population (around …