Volume 4 • Issue 3 • 1000217 Pharmaceut Anal Acta ISSN: 2153-2435 PAA, an open access journal *Corresponding author: Wen-sheng Zheng, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences& Peking Union Medical College, Beijing City Key Laboratory of Drug Delivery Technology and Novel Formulations, Beijing 100050, People’s Republic of China, Tel: +86 010 63165233; Fax: +86 010 6301775...

Plants are one of the great resources of the world, and as humankind has evolved, socially, spiritually, and economically, we have found, collectively, a myriad uses for the plants around us. One of those uses is for the prevention, treatment, and cure of various disease states. Documented knowledge about such use dates back at least 4000 years, and several of the plant mentioned in the ancie...