India is known for its Ayurvedic system of medicine significantly based on therapeutic plants. Medicinal plants are used since time immemorial due to its safety, efficacy, cultural acceptability and lesser side effects as compared to synthetic drugs.

In this present book, a scientific approach has been extensively applied for isolation, purification and screening of biological potential based on bioassay-guided fractionation methods. More specifically, the traditional values of therapeutic plants are correlated with scientific approach for the validation of “drug- like properties”.

This book is quite helpful for finding the hidden values of therapeutic approach of ethno-medicinal plants. This book is inclusively a soul combination of pharmacognosy, biotechnology, bioinformatics and nanotechnology which are the most thrusting subjects of today’s world. This book is a must-read for science students, research scholars and scientific community who are interested in plant science.

Dr. Anita S. Patil is Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, Maharashtra, India. She has published more than 35 research articles in various national and international journals. More than 10 students have been awarded Ph.D. under her guidance. She is reviewer of Austin Journal of Biotechnology and Bioengineering; Indian J. of Biotechnology; Phytomedicine, etc. She has been awarded more than 5 patents.