Chemical and Pharmacological Potential of Medicinal Plants
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phytochemistry; pharmacology; NMR spectrometry
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: plant chemical variability; technology of plant products; natural bond orbital (NBO); quantum theory of atoms in molecules (QTAIM)
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: medicinal plants; phytochemistry; pharmacognosy; bioproducts; technology of plant products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The history of humanity has been marked by the use of plants for the treatment of diseases. Even today, medicinal plants remain therapeutic alternatives with significant popularity worldwide, owing to their historical, cultural, and scientific significance.
Although many studies have been conducted in the areas of ethnobotany, pharmacology, and phytochemistry, much remains unknown. A very high percentage of plants remain unexplored, and the exact metabolites responsible for their biological effects, their pharmacological mechanisms of action, their quantifications in plants under clinical study are still unknown.
Therefore, in this Special Issue, we invite researchers to share their findings on all aspects of chemical studies, from both preclinical and clinical trials, and the standardization of extracts from plants, medicinal or not.
Dr. Omar Enrique Estrada Semprun
Dr. Leonardo Luiz Borges
Prof. Dr. Joelma Abadia Marciano de Paula
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- phytochemistry
- preclinical assays
- clinical trials
- quality control
- herbal medicine
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