The Therapeutic Potential of Traditional Herbal Medicines
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 153
Special Issue Editor
Interests: traditional herbal medicines; drug discovery; virology; wound healing; neurological disorders; pharmacology; biodiscovery; phytoconstituents; secondary metabolites; Australian native plants
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Dear Colleagues,
It is an honor to announce this Special Issue dedicated to advancing our knowledge of traditional herbal medicines from extracts and bioactive phytoconstituents to therapeutic mechanisms and their potential clinical applications. Traditional plant-based medicines have been utilized for millennia across a multitude of diverse cultures and continue to be the principal source of therapies for a large proportion of the global population. Natural products have been the basis of drug discovery, yet despite advances in synthetic chemistry, their structural complexity, chemical diversity, and pleiotropic bioactivity remain unmatched.
Amid growing demand for evidence-based natural therapies, there is an urgent need to bridge traditional herbal knowledge with modern pharmacological and clinical research, validating their efficacy and mechanisms for clinical application. This Special Issue focuses on medicinal plants as reservoirs of bioactive phytoconstituents, integrating medical perspectives to explore their therapeutic potential, with the goal of highlighting the role of medicinal plants in traditional herbal therapies, promoting interdisciplinary research, and informing novel plant-based therapeutic development.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles, review papers, perspectives and ethnopharmacological studies focusing on the therapeutic potential of traditional herbal medicines. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, studies concerning their pharmaceutical/pharmacological activities, bioactive compound/constituent isolation, mechanisms of action, herbal formulation standardization, and in vitro/in vivo/clinical evaluations.
We invite researchers from relevant fields to submit manuscripts and contribute to this issue. Your contributions will further our understanding in this field, and we look forward to your submissions!
Dr. Trudi Collet
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- traditional herbal medicines
- medicinal plants
- therapeutic potential
- phytoconstituents
- pharmacological activity
- mechanism of action
- herbal formulations
- clinical evaluation
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