Phytochemicals in Medicinal Plants: Biodiversity, Bioactivity and Drug Discovery

Benefitting from phytochemicals in medicinal plants has lately gained increasingly more global relevance. The medicinal bioactivity might range from wound healing activity to anti-inflammatory and anti-viral effects. This work describes the challenging scientific process of systematic identification and taxonomy through molecular profiling and nanoparticle production from plant extracts until a final use for e.g. cancer or HIV treatment.

From the table of contents
PART A: Biodiversity & Traditional Knowledge.
__Habitats and Distribution.
__Threats and Conservation.
__Culture, tradition and indigenous practices.
PART B: Phytochemical constituents – Molecules and Characterization Techniques.
__Alkaloids & Flavonoids.
__Tannin, Saponnin and Taxol.
__Terpenoids, Steroids and Phenolic Compounds.
__Essential oil and their constituents.
__Characterization Techniques used for the analysis of phytochemical constituents.
PART C: Medicinal Bioactivity.
__Anti-cancerous and Anti HIV activity.
__Anti-microbial, Anti-inflammatory and wound healing activity.
__Anti-oxidant activity.
__Anti-diabetic activity.
__Anti-Corona virus and anti-viral activity.
PART D: Nanotechnology.
__Nano-materials synthesis from medicinal plant extract.
__Characterization and activity of medicinal plant based nanoparticles.
PART E: Pharmacology/Drug discovery.
__Plant phytochemicals in drug discovery.
__Extraction and production of drugs.
__System pharmacology and drug discovery.