A Pharmacological and Phytochemical Study Medicinal plants

The subject of Phytochemistry or plant chemistry has developed in recent years as a distinct discipline, somewhere in between natural product, organic chemistry and plant biochemistry and is closely related to both. It is concerned with the enormous variety of organic substances that are elaborated and accumulated by plants and deals with the chemical structures of these substances, their biosynthesis, turn-over and metabolism, their natural distribution and their biological function. In all these operations methods are needed for separation, purification and identification of the many different constituents present in plants. Thus advances in our understanding of pytochemistry are directly related to the successful exploitation of known techniques and the continuing development of new techniques to solve outstanding problems as they appear.