Abstract:
Plants, which constitute a major component of foodstuffs in humans, have formed the basis of various traditional medicine systems and folk medicines that have been practiced for thousands of years during the course of human history. Until now, plants/herbs are still highly esteemed all over the world as a rich source of phytochemical and therapeutic agents for the treatment and prevention of various diseases. The country like Pakistan is endowed with an enormous wealth of medicinal plant diversity from Mother Nature. Over the past few decades, researchers have focused on nutraceutical and natural drug discovery from botanical sources. With a long history of herbal usage for the clinical management of a variety of diseases in indigenous cultures of Pakistan, the success rate of developing a new drug from herbal medicinal preparations should, in theory, be higher than that from synthetic allopathic medicines. While the endeavor for drug discovery from herbal medicines is “experience driven,” the search for therapeutically useful active compounds from traditional plantbased remedies leads to discovery of natural drugs using various approaches. The present study is mainly focused on ethnopharmacological documentation leads to develop Nutra-pharmaceutical, Biomass energy and cosmeceutical products in Pak-China distribution. The main focus of our project is on biosynthesis of secondary metabolites from medicinal plants using advances analytical (TLC, HPLC, GC-MS, FT-IR, NMR, EDX, SEM etc. and biological techniques to isolate some novel bioactive phytochemical entities for further pharmacological studies. This investigation further will be useful for large scale production of nutraceutical and natural medicines in China and Pakistan as sustainable and viable sources of health care to locals in order to reduce dependency on highly expensive conventional synthetic drugs. This type of study will enhance the prosperity and well-being of all the stakeholders in pharmaceutical, Biomass energy and nutraceutical industry and commoditybased industry through stable and remunerative prices for Pakistan.
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5-5
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Abstract Book on Second International Conference on Recent Approaches in Plant Sciences (RAPS-23) 4-5 May 2023 , Volume: 0, Issue: 0, Year: 2023