Many of our present medicines are derived directly or indirectly from higher plants. While
several classic plant drugs have lost much ground to synthetic competitors, others have …

The therapeutic use of herbs is as old as human civilization and has evolved along with it.
The vast majority of people on this planet still rely on their indigenous system of medicine …

The natural world once served as the source of all medicinal agents, with higher plants
constituting by far the principal sources of these. Today, higher plants continue to retain their …

Plants are rich in a variety of compounds. Many are secondary metabolites and include
aromatic substances, most of which are phenols or their oxygen-substituted derivatives such …

Herbal medicines encompass the combination of practices of indigenous systems of
medicine and several therapeutic experiences of many previous generations. Which …

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 …

Plant-derived drugs have an important place in both traditional and modern medicine. For
this reason a special effort to maintain the great diversity of plant species would undoubtedly …

Emerging threats to human health require a concerted effort in search of both preventive and
treatment strategies, placing natural products at the center of efforts to obtain new therapies …

New Look to Phytomedicine: Advancements in Herbal Products as Novel Drug Leads is a
compilation of in-depth information on the phytopharmaceuticals used in modern medicine …

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 …