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Medicinal Plants

Medicinal plants are plants that contain naturally occurring compounds with biological activity that can be used to prevent, relieve, or treat illness. Used in traditional healing systems for thousands of years and still important worldwide, they are also a major source of leads for modern pharmacology, supplying ph…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 378× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2638-4469 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Medicinal plants are plants that contain naturally occurring compounds with biological activity that can be used to prevent, relieve, or treat illness. Used in traditional healing systems for thousands of years and still important worldwide, they are also a major source of leads for modern pharmacology, supplying phytochemicals such as alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins, phenolics, and essential oils that underlie many of their reported effects. The study of medicinal plants spans the identification of active constituents, the evaluation of their biological activities, and the documentation of traditional uses. Within the scope of a journal devoted to Advances in Plant Biology, research in this area has examined medicinal plants and their traditional uses, the pharmacognostic evaluation of medicinal plant leaves, and the antimicrobial and antifungal activity of plant leaf extracts against pathogens. Further work has assessed the antioxidant activity and total phenolic content of medicinal plants, the dose response of plant-derived saponins, phytochemical profiling of crude plant extracts, essential oils from plants, and the antibacterial and cytotoxic activity of plant compounds. These studies span the chemistry, biological activity, and applications of plant-derived substances. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to medicinal plants, offering researchers, students, and practitioners freely accessible scientific work.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Medicinal Plants and their Traditional Uses

Keskin CumaliCorresponding author
Mardin Artuklu University, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health, 47100 Mardin, Turkey.
Exact topic Advances in Plant Biology Cited by 47 doi:10.14302/issn.2638-4469.japb-18-2423
2018

Essential Oils from Plants

Butnariu MonicaCorresponding author
Banat’s University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine “King Michael I of Romania” from Timisoara, Timis, Romania
Exact topic Biotechnology and Biomedical Science Cited by 237 doi:10.14302/issn.2576-6694.jbbs-18-2489

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 378 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Medicinal Plants, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Advances in Plant Biology (ISSN 2638-4469).

Journal editorial board
Filippos Ververidis · Greece Pasquale Filannino · Italy Laura Scrano · Italy

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