Medicinal and aromatic plants are the foremost source of life economy drugs for the majority of the world’s population.Secondary plant metabolites are essential for life as drugs,fragrances,pigments and food additive...Medicinal and aromatic plants are the foremost source of life economy drugs for the majority of the world’s population.Secondary plant metabolites are essential for life as drugs,fragrances,pigments and food additives.Botanical study of plants is an inevitable step in the ethnopharmacological approach and it is the reference system since it allows sitting scientifically research that follows from of these new concepts.So,the purpose of many scientists is to advance a new approach useful for identifying plants within a folk pharmacopoeia which deserve the increased research attention of phytochemists and pharmacologists.In the objective to study medicinal plants,usually we start by extraction of the bioactive compounds,which is an essential stage.So,new important extraction processes were elaborated to recover bioactive constituants from herbal plants by augmenting the yield at inferior fee.Recent approachs and methods used in isolation and characterization of active compounds from herbal preparations are also given according to their important roles.Besides,in the present work,an update on some biological activities properties of medicinal plants is reviewed.展开更多
文摘Medicinal and aromatic plants are the foremost source of life economy drugs for the majority of the world’s population.Secondary plant metabolites are essential for life as drugs,fragrances,pigments and food additives.Botanical study of plants is an inevitable step in the ethnopharmacological approach and it is the reference system since it allows sitting scientifically research that follows from of these new concepts.So,the purpose of many scientists is to advance a new approach useful for identifying plants within a folk pharmacopoeia which deserve the increased research attention of phytochemists and pharmacologists.In the objective to study medicinal plants,usually we start by extraction of the bioactive compounds,which is an essential stage.So,new important extraction processes were elaborated to recover bioactive constituants from herbal plants by augmenting the yield at inferior fee.Recent approachs and methods used in isolation and characterization of active compounds from herbal preparations are also given according to their important roles.Besides,in the present work,an update on some biological activities properties of medicinal plants is reviewed.