Meet the editors

Shagufta Perveen is an associate professor at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. She obtained her PhD from the H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Pakistan, in 2009. Afterward, she joined King Saud University as an assistant professor, where she was promoted to associate professor in 2014. She began her research on natural product isolation and structure elucidation using different contemporary methods and techniques.

She has published more than seventy original papers in different ISI-ranked journals, three chapters, and one book. She has collaborated with many researchers in Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Pakistan, and Italy. She is the editor of more than 10 journals and a reviewer of many others.

Prof. Dr. Areej Mohammad Al-Taweel obtained her PhD in the field of pharmacognosy from King Saud University in 2007. She then joined the same university as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2013. She continues her research on the phytochemical investigation of different Saudi Arabian medicinal plants and has isolated many bioactive natural products. She has published more than 50 papers in ISIranked journals.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Introductory Chapter: Pharmacognosy

*by Shagufta Perveen and Areej Mohammad Al-Taweel*

*by Maiko Inoue, Shinichiro Hayashi and Lyle E. Craker*

Mechanisms of Action, and Biosynthetic Pathways

*by Mónica Lilian Pérez-Ochoa, José Luis Chávez-Servia, Araceli Minerva Vera-Guzmán, Elia Nora Aquino-Bolaños* 

Medicinal Plants Used as Galactagogues

*Gladys Schwinger and Mark Frempong*

to Treat Gastrointestinal Disorders

*and José Cruz Carrillo-Rodríguez*

Applicability against Cancer

*by Dennis R.A. Mans and Euridice R. Irving*

**Preface V**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Medicinal Plants **11**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 27**

**Chapter 4 49**

**Chapter 5 71**

**Chapter 6 107**

*by Juan Carlos Castro, Joseph Dylan Maddox, Marianela Cobos, Jae Diana Paredes,* 

Role of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Past, Present, and Future

Medicinal Plants of the Peruvian Amazon: Bioactive Phytochemicals,

*Anthony Jhoao Fasabi, Gabriel Vargas-Arana, Jorge Luis Marapara, Pedro Marcelino Adrianzen, María Zadith Casuso and Segundo Levi Estela*

*by Emelia Oppong Bekoe, Cindy Kitcher, Nana Ama Mireku Gyima,* 

Medicinal Plants Used by Indigenous Communities of Oaxaca, Mexico,

Anticancer Activity of Uncommon Medicinal Plants from the Republic of Suriname: Traditional Claims, Preclinical Findings, and Potential Clinical
