Fig. 1
From: Multilayered regulation of secondary metabolism in medicinal plants
Physicochemical properties of secondary metabolites in medicinal plants. The abundance of these compounds, such as phenolics, terpenoids, and alkaloids, makes medicinal plants rich in nutraceutical and pharmaceutical properties. There are multiple health benefits in the bioactive compounds present in medicinal plants, including antidiabetic, anticancer, galactagogic, digestive, hepatoprotective, regulatory, and antioxidant properties, and work against anorexic, antilithogenic, and antipathogenic properties, and several other medicinal properties