Benefitting from phytochemicals in medicinal plants has lately gained increasingly more global relevance. The medicinal bioactivity might range from wound healing activity to anti-inflammatory and anti-viral effects. This work describes the challenging scientific process of systematic identification and taxonomy through molecular profiling and nanoparticle production from plant extracts until a final use for e.g. cancer or HIV treatment.

From the table of contents
PART A: Biodiversity & Traditional Knowledge.
__Habitats and Distribution.
__Threats and Conservation.
__Culture, tradition and indigenous practices.
PART B: Phytochemical constituents - Molecules and Characterization Techniques.
__Alkaloids & Flavonoids.
__Tannin, Saponnin and Taxol.
__Terpenoids, Steroids and Phenolic Compounds.
__Essential oil and their constituents.
__Characterization Techniques used for the analysis of phytochemical constituents.
PART C: Medicinal Bioactivity.
__Anti-cancerous and Anti HIV activity.
__Anti-microbial, Anti-inflammatory and wound healing activity.
__Anti-oxidant activity.
__Anti-diabetic activity.
__Anti-Corona virus and anti-viral activity.
PART D: Nanotechnology.
__Nano-materials synthesis from medicinal plant extract.
__Characterization and activity of medicinal plant based nanoparticles.
PART E: Pharmacology/Drug discovery.
__Plant phytochemicals in drug discovery.
__Extraction and production of drugs.
__System pharmacology and drug discovery.

____Associate Professor Dr. Charu Arora, Department of Chemistry, Guru Ghasidas University (A Central University),
Bilaspur, C.G., India. charuarora77@gmail.com

__Head, Department of Chemistry at Guru Ghasidas University and Division Chair, Division of Nanochemistry at Galgotias University, Greater Noida.
__2003: Ph. D. in Chemistry from GK University, Haridwar and Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. __19 years of teaching and research experience.
__1995: postgraduation in Chemistry from GK University, Haridwar and Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
__Areas of interest and research: Environmental Chemistry, Kinetics and Natural Product Chemistry.
Awards:
__2011: SARC Gold Medal Award conferred by Scientific and Applied Research Centre, CCS University, Meerut.
__2016: Gold Medal Award of Hi-Tech Horticulture Society for outstanding contribution in Chemistry.
__2017: SERS Fellow Award for contribution in field of Chemistry.

____Assistant Professor Dr. Dakeshwar Kumar Verma, Department of Chemistry, Govt. Digvijay Autonomous Postgraduate College, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India 491441. dakeshwarverma@gmail.com

__Research: mainly focused on the preparation and designing of sustainable and eco-friendly corrosion inhibitors for metals and alloys those are useful for several industrial applications.
__2013: Dr. Verma received Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Junior Research Fellowship national award.

____Dr. Assistant Professor Jeenat Aslam, Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Taibah University,
Yanbu-30799, Al-Madina, Saudi Arabia. drjeenataslam@outlook.com

__Research is generally based on the materials and corrosion, nanotechnology, and surface chemistry.

____Assistant Professor Dr. Pramod Kumar Mahish, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. Digvijay Autonomous Postgraduate College, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India 491441. drpramodkumarmahish@gmail.com

__9 years of teaching and 12 years of research experience.
__Area of interest: Medicinal plants and bio-processing.