Phytochemical Analysis of Medicinal Plants

Description

Scientists are becoming increasingly interested in medicinal plants and herbal preparations because they have reliable pharmacological effects and are affordable to the average person. This makes them helpful in treating a wide range of diseases. Therefore, people have tried to include everything about medicinal plants. In order to do this, the chapters give complete information about the history, the isolation and characterization of active principles, the change in the medical system, medicinal plants that are well-known for curing certain diseases, the export of medicinal plants and phytochemicals, suggestions for improving the medicinal crop industry, etc. Phytochemicals are natural, biologically active plant compounds that might be able to stop diseases from spreading. Because they are antioxidants, these phytochemicals are known to help fight diseases. As a way to deal with stress from the environment, many plants make antioxidants like polyphenolics. On the other hand, antioxidants are phytochemicals that pick up and neutralize free radicals by quenching singlet and triplet oxygen or causing peroxides and other toxic metabolites to be made. Scientists are becoming increasingly interested in medicinal plants and herbal preparations because they have reliable pharmacological effects and are affordable to the average person. This makes them helpful in treating a wide range of diseases. Polygonum minus (Polygonaceae), or "kesum" as it is called in Malay, is an aromatic plant often used in Malay food. The oil in the plant is very volatile and can be used in perfumes. It also has strong antioxidant properties. The ethnomedicinal information and chemical components of a plant are essential to know not only so that therapeutic agents can be found but also so that a new source of cost-effective phytochemicals for synthesising chemical substances can be found the real meaning of ethnomedicinal remedies can be discovered.