Medicinal plants have historically proven their value as a source of molecules with
therapeutic potential, and nowadays still represent an important pool for the identification of …

The development of new drugs will certainly benefit from an ever improving knowledge of
the living beings chemistry. However, identification of drugable molecules within the …

A major problem in the discovery of new biologically active compounds from natural
products is the reisolation of known compounds. Such reisolations waste time and …

Over the past few years, the applications of liquid chromatography coupled with mass
spectrometry (LC–MS) in natural product analysis have been dramatically growing because …

Thanks to the important advances registered over the last decade in analytical techniques,
profiling methods for the analysis of crude extracts from plant origin or from other biological …

Anecdotes, both historical and recent, recount the curing of skin infections, including diaper
rash, by using red soils from the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Following inoculation of red …

The subject of chemosystematics has provided insight to both botanical classification and
drug development. However, degrees of subjectivity in botanical classifications and limited …

Plant-natural products are used in several cosmetic applications as whitening agents.
However, various Colchicum species rich in bioactive secondary metabolites that possess …

Colchicine (COL) is a well-known plant alkaloid long used for medical purposes due to the
selective anti-inflammatory effect on acute gouty arthritis. It is also a kind of mitosis toxin with …

Nitrogen-containing bioactive alkaloids of plant origin play a significant role in human health
and medicine. Several semisynthetic antimitotic alkaloids are successful in anticancer drug …