Foreword

Plants have always considered been as ‘Nature’s Library’ for new chemical entities and one of the major resources in drug discovery and new drug development. Medicinal plants that have been used in traditional systems of medicine are being studied more than a fine decade for scientific evaluation and validation of the application, which provides rational and evidence-based alternative medicines and eventually a backbone of modern day’s herbal drug, herbal bioactives, semisynthetic and to some extent in synthetic drug and pharmaceutical industries.

In the light of the foregoing, this Book, "Bioactive Phytochemicals: Drug Discovery to Product Development" is a tremendously important and in-depth contribution to the subject of ’Phyto-pharmaceuticals from drug discovery to product development’. The book has brought together diverse works in the scientific literature under an umbrella on the use of therapeutically active phytochemicals in the treatment of various chronic disorders. An excellent effort has been made in this frankly speaking 'a much-needed book' to address the challenges in plant and plant bioactive based drug development to its transition to the phytopharmaceutical product comprehensively and sequentially. I am confident that the book is capable of centering the attention of the reader on the limitless potentials of bioactive phytochemicals. It does particularly well too in highlighting several current areas of interest in extraction, isolation, structural characterization, pharmacological screening, product development and regulatory perspectives of herbal drugs and bioactive phytochemicals

I have, no doubt, that this book will be well-received (equally) by the researchers in the phytopharmaceutical industry and academia. Moreover, this book is really good at offering a vast knowledge on this subject to the chemist and pharmacy students.