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Folk Medicine Meets Metabolomics and Public Health


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1 Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute, Doresanipalya Forest Campus, Bengaluru 560 078, India
2 Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hesaraghatta Lake Post, Bengaluru 560 089, India
 

A recent issue of Current Science reported the emergence of a new discipline, i.e. metabolomics. Humans have been using aspirin, quinine and other secondary metabolites as plant extracts for a long time now. However, it was only in the last century that we started identifying, isolating and, later, synthesizing the active compounds that have therapeutic value.
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Authors

Pavithra P. Nayak
Environmental Management and Policy Research Institute, Doresanipalya Forest Campus, Bengaluru 560 078, India
H. M. Mahadeva Swamy
Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Hesaraghatta Lake Post, Bengaluru 560 089, India

Abstract


A recent issue of Current Science reported the emergence of a new discipline, i.e. metabolomics. Humans have been using aspirin, quinine and other secondary metabolites as plant extracts for a long time now. However, it was only in the last century that we started identifying, isolating and, later, synthesizing the active compounds that have therapeutic value.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv111%2Fi12%2F1906-1907