Phytochemical Evaluation of Some Medicinal Plants

Plants are the treasure house of potential drugs, becoming potential source for phytoconstituents with varied pharmacological activities. Identification of such plants of potential use in medicine is of significance. Over one and a half million traditional healers use a wide range of medicinal plants for treating mild or chronic ailments of both humans and livestock across the length and breadth of the country. Today, safer use of natural plant based chemicals; crude compounds are gaining importance in medicine and pharmaceutical industry all over the world. The bioactive compounds have a great therapeutic potential providing the molecular basis for most of the drugs currently in clinical use, especially in cancer and infectious diseases. As traditional medicinal herbs are generally used crude extracts, so working with crude extracts means working with complex mixtures of biologically active compounds. These plants derived natural products or secondary metabolites are used as drugs and nutritional supplements. The findings of this investigations offer several benefits to human therapeutics and animal applications.