Medicinal uses of plant secondary metabolites: A brief review
Aurosha Fayaz*, Gafoor Unnisa, Mohammad Faizan and S. Maqbool Ahmed
Botany Section, School of Sciences, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad-500032 (India) *Correspondence: fayazaurosha@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Plants are considered to be the best source for the discovery of medicinal products for medication development, pharmaceuticals food additives and other industrial qualities. Plant-derived medicines are important to human health and well-being. Although many of these beneficial medications have been synthesised, only a small percentage of them are commercially manufactured. As a result, the plant source remains critical, not only in terms of drug production, but also in terms of generating innovative biologically active molecules from which more potent and less toxic medicines might be synthesized. There has been a lot of interest in their production and investigating ways to improve it utilising tissue culture technology in recent years. So far, large number of research articles has been published for evaluating antioxidant, antimicrobial, and anti-diabetic activities of various secondary metabolites derived from different plants. This review has the goal to explain the types of secondary metabolites. We emphasize the drugs made from secondary metabolites and bioactive compounds found in plants. Lastly, emphasis has been laid on the groups of plant metabolites.