**4. Some bioactive phytochemicals identified in medicinal plants**

Presently, the list of medicinal plants of the Peruvian Amazon is partial; in consequence, only for the most known plants were identified a few bioactive phytochemicals (**Figure 3**). There is no way to estimate how many new biochemical structures, probably of great value to humankind, remain undiscovered in the Peruvian Amazon. Some of the phytochemicals isolated and with corroborated bioactivity against cancer [28], inflammation [29], diarrhea [30], malaria [31], diabetes [32], and several other diseases were determined [33].

*Medicinal Plants of the Peruvian Amazon: Bioactive Phytochemicals, Mechanisms of Action… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.82461* 

**Figure 3.**  *A small selection of bioactive phytochemicals identified in medicinal plants of the Peruvian Amazon.* 
