About This Special Issue
Medicinal plants are the mainstay of complementary and alternative medicine. Medicinal plants have been identified and used to diseases from the antique time. For the treatment of various minor and major diseases, people of the developing and low income countries dependences on medicinal plants. The use of traditional medicines is not only limited to developing countries, in a number of industrialized countries, many people frequently use several forms of traditional medicines with England (47%), Canada (70%) and Germany (75%) being examples. WHO stated that more than 80% of the world's population dependences on medicinal plants for their primary health care needs. In 2001, researchers identified 122 compounds used in today medicine were derived from ethnobotanical sources, 80% of these have had an ethnomedical use identical or related to the current use of the active elements of the plant. Many of the pharmaceuticals currently available in the market have a long history of use as herbal remedies, including aspirin, digitalis, quinine and opium. The search for new natural remedies is still ongoing process against new and existence diseases. In the pursuit of searching plants having substantial pharmacological and biological activities, we have designed this special issue and we would like to invite the researchers from all over the world to submit their manuscript in the field of phytopharmacology, phytotherapy and phytochemistry.
This issue covers the following topic but are not always limited:
1.Pharmacological inquiry of medicinal plants
2. Analysis of health-promoting agents from medicinal plants
3. Phytochemical screening of medicinal plants
4. Ethnobotanical inquiry of medicinal plants
5. Isolation, identification and structural elucidation of medicinal plants
6. Medicinal plants and their importance for the mankind
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