RARE PHYTOCHEMICALS FOUND IN NATURE WITH SUBSTANTIVE MEDICINAL POTENTIAL

The use of medicinal herbs continues to be essential source of bioactive substances with a variety of structures with extensive therapeutic potential. Natural products made from plants are abundant in bioactive substances that are crucial for the development of new drugs. These substances have intricate metabolite combinations that give them their pharmacological activities. Rare phytochemicals, which are found in a small number of plant or marine species and are produced through complex biosynthetic pathways, provide remarkable scaffolds for contemporary drug discovery. They are very appealing as a therapeutic leads because of their therapeutic effectiveness, structural diversity, and low abundance or identified in nature. This article provides a succinct discussion of rare phytochemicals with substantive medicinal potential. Ten substances namely maytansine, silvestrol, homoharringtonine, thapsigargin, conophylline, brusatol, salvinorin A, phyllanthin, rohitukine and pseudopterosins are thoroughly analyzed and summarized.