Plants or their crude extracts have been used since prehistory to treat human ailments.
Plants are still used in this way in many parts of the world, but Western scientific medicine …

Natural preparations have been used for thousands of ages for a variety of purposes
including as medicines, poisons, and psychotropic drugs. The largest grouped of …

Plants have a long history of use as traditional remedies to treat a range of diseases and the
diverse chemicals that they produce have provided great inspiration for the design of new …

Plants have long been a source of therapeutic agents used by man. Some 80% of the
world's population still rely upon plants for primary health care; even today in Western …

In Chapter 1, we presented a compilation of the many types of chemical compounds that
plants produce. Now the question arises: How do plants synthesize these compounds, and …

Plants produce a vast number of bioactive compounds with different chemical scaffolds,
which modulate a diverse range of molecular targets and are used as drugs for treating …

Nature has blessed us with remedies to sustain or restore our health. We consume,
intentionally or unintentionally, foods that contain substances that support our body functions …

This book entitled Chemistry and Pharmacology of Naturally Occurring Bioactive
Compounds is an endeavor to present cutting-edge research in the chemistry of bioactive …

In this chapter, some successful drugs derived from plant secondary metabolites in their
original or modified forms, and other substances, currently under clinical trial as drug …

Natural bioactive compounds from medicinal plants are inexplicably diverse in chemical
structure and biological properties. The unmet therapeutic requirements for various diseases …