Isolating and purifying new therapeutic agents from plants and marine sources is essential to the continued success of the pharmaceutical industry. One out of four prescription drugs sold in the United States contains active ingredients extracted or derived from plants. 50% of the top selling drug products are derived from natural products. More than 40 different plant species are used, and yet...

Copyright: © 2012 Ma Y, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Nowadays, herbal medicines have been widely used in health care and disease treatment and the share of herbal medicinal products i...

Only a small fraction of the immense diversity of plant metabolism has been explored for the production of new medicines and other products important to human well-being. The availability of inexpensive high-throughput sequencing is rapidly expanding the number of species that can be investigated for the speedy discovery of previously unknown enzymes and pathways. Exploitation of these resource...

Traditional Chinese medicines are one of the most ancient medicines which are in use since long back. It has potential to cure large variety of diseases. Different variety of herbs as well as techniques such as acupuncture, moxibustion etc. are being used nowadays. Scientist are continuously looking forward to develop extracts from such plants using different ancient formulas to cure dreadful d...

The propagation of plants for food, timber, medicines and aesthetics has been a principal activity of man for millennia. However, the systematic propagation of plant material for the purposes of conservation has a recent history, probably dating back only a few decades. The propagation and distribution of Torreya taxifolia from wild collected, documented material is one of the largest projects ...

Survey was made in three different districts of Nagaland, India (Mokokchung, Wokha and Zunheboto) by interacting with the people about the plants/parts used by them. Information was also collected on the purpose of use, source of the plants/parts, season of collection, preparation process. Some of the selected plant species were collected from the wild and established in the Departmental experi...

Plants of dietary nature contain rich sources of nutrients and secondary metabolites of therapeutic importance. Cucurbits belong to Cucurbitaceae family and are rich sources of nutritional and medicinal compounds [1-4]. Cucurbitaceae consists of nearly 100 genera and over 750 species [5-8]. Dietary intervention of these groups of plants can ameliorate various types of diseases through their pre...

Ethnomedicine has gained a lot of recognition in post-independence Zimbabwe and yet little research on anti-fertility medicines has been done. Information on plants used as anti-fertility medicines was obtained by interviewing women, men, traditional healers and traditional midwives in urban Harare and surrounding rural areas of Mvurwi, Seke and Chiweshe. The use of 31 species belonging to 17 f...

Extensive ethnoveterinary survey was carried out during the 2006–2009 to document the precious indigenous healthcare practices prevalent among the different ethnic groups (Bhil, Meena, Garasia, etc.) of Tadgarh–Raoli wildlife sanctuary. Ethnoveterinary surveys of the study area revealed veterinary uses of 54 plants belonging to 34 families of Angiosperms. Euphorbiaceae is the dominant family wi...

In the medical field with the abilities of various synthetic drugs and medicinal plants-that are formulated in various elegant pharmaceutical forms-that are circulating in both our own countries and abroad. It initially gives an idea about the prevalence of drugs-induced hepatotoxicity in some countries and then it describes the various physiological functions of the liver. It also discusses th...