Role of Herbs as Sources of Therapeutic Agents for Innovative Drug Discovery

Abstract

For many years, natural products have been recognised as an essential source of active components for medicinal medicines. Specifically, the application of active substances originated from plants and utilised in microbial natural goods dates back to a time before modern medicine. Natural product chemistry, biochemistry, and synthetic activities have long been linked to the effectiveness of natural products. Hence, the special qualities of these natural products are being utilised in light of scientific advancements in contemporary molecular and cellular biology, analytical chemistry, and pharmacology. The goal is to take advantage of the chemical and structural diversity, as well as the biodiversity, of these types of products in relation to their potential therapeutic effects. Rearranging chemical entities or structural isomers of naturally existing products to create new compounds is a common strategy used by drug design units to create novel molecules of interest that may be developed into therapeutics with potential.