Abstract
Many natural products are highly evolved, specific, and effective gene products. Their diverse structural and stereochemical characteristics make them valuable templates for exploring novel molecular diversity. Nature has been the first source for cures for diseases and discomforts that have led to the foundation of many empirical therapeutic interventions. The majority of these have emerged from a plethora of terrestrial resources. Today, natural products and their derivatives represent over 50% of all drugs in clinical use. These drugs have been derived from diverse sources such as marine organisms, microorganisms, insects, and even animals. Natural products thus play a key role in global healthcare and the economy. Developing countries have long traditions of using plants and other natural products as remedies in their folk systems. Based on ethnomedicinal information, we selected several medicinal plants for bioassay-guided phytochemical investigations. These investigations resulted in the identification of a large number of bioactive constituents.
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