Discovery of a new drug is time consuming and laborious process. Natural products have
long been a thriving source for the discovery of new drugs due to their chemical diversity …

Nature has produced wonderfully complex molecules that no synthetic chemist could ever
dream of. It was only after the isolation of Morphine from the opium poppy plant people …

Natural products have historically been an extremely productive source for new medicines in
all cultures and continue to deliver a great variety of structural templates for drug discovery …

Importance to the field: Natural products are the most consistently successful source of drug
leads, both historically and currently. Despite this, the use of natural products in industrial …

Ethnopharmacology, through the description of the beneficial effects of plants, has provided
an early framework for the therapeutic use of natural compounds. Natural products, either in …

Drug development in phytomedicine has been focused in the past on the discovery and
analysis of new structures from natural products. The search aimed at the determination of …

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 …

Natural products have been an integral part of sustaining civilizations because of their
medicinal properties. Past discoveries of bioactive natural products have relied on …

Owing to the high diversity of terrestrial and marine organisms, natural products (secondary
metabolites) are some of the most successful source of drug leads for the treatment of many …

The discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs is one of the preeminent tasks—scientifically,
economically, and socially—in biomedical research. Advances in informatics and …