Role of Medicinal Plants and Their Marker Compounds in Clinical Practice
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinals, Herbs, and Specialty Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 April 2022)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pharmacognosy; medicinal plants; herbal medicines; ethnobotany; ethnopharmacology; ethnopharmacy; rational phytotherapy; natural products
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Interests: pharmaceutical botany; pharmacognosy; medicinal plants; ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology; herbal medicines’ control methods (quality, efficacy, and safety); biological activity in vitro.
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Medicinal plants are an integral part of our culture, having indications of their use by man for medicinal purposes since prehistory, and consisting of these the fundamental materia medica until the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Currently, medicinal plants and herbal medicinal products remain an integral part of conventional health systems and of the traditional and complementary health systems, being essential in the primary health care of most of the world population and the increase in the quality, safety, and efficacy studies on these medicines, using modern chemical, biological and toxicological tools, improving the scientific evidence on the usefulness of the use of it as medicines. On the other hand, the isolation of natural products from medicinal plants and their use as active principal of medicines (e.g. morphine, atropine) or as a model for the synthesis or hemisynthesis of it, is another form of use of these natural resources, of especial interest.
In this special issue articles (original research papers, perspectives, hypotheses, opinions, reviews, modelling approaches and methods) that focus on pharmacognostic, pharmacological, clinical pharmacokinetic, toxicological and pharmacovigilance studies of medicinal plants, herbal preparations and its major marker compounds are most welcome.
Prof. Dr. Olga Silva
Prof. Dr. Serrano Rita
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Efficacy
- herbal medicines
- medicinal plants
- phytotherapy
- safety
