New strategies for traditional medicine -- Developing better herbal medicines in the post-genomic era -- Revitalization of the knowledge of herbs: a way forward to discovery of new drugs -- Ethnobotanical uses of the native flora from Brazilian north-eastern region -- Diversity and uses of the genus croton (euphorbiaceae) in Northeastern Brazil -- Ethnomedical knowledge among the "Quilombolas" from the Amazon region of Brazil with a special focus on plants used as nervous system tonics -- Advances in the knowledge of medicinal plants in Eastern Andalusia, Spain -- Tropical propolis: recent advances in chemical components and Botanical origin -- Anti-malarial plants used in folk medicine in Bangladesh -- Usnea sulcata motyka: an ethnomycological review of its use in traditional medicine -- Sirukurinjan: An ancient remedy for a modern incurable disease, diabetes -- Herbal drugs used for domestic animals -- Endophytes from medicinal plants as novel sources of bioactive compounds -- Advances in medicinal plants with antitumoral activity -- Medicinal plants: how are they used to treat neurological diseases? -- Inflammatory diseases: mechanisms and natural remedies -- Recent advances to evaluate anti-diabetic medicinal plants -- Botanical origin and Biological activity of propolis -- Bioactivity of plant essential oils -- Antibacterial and antiviral effects of aromatic plant-derived essential oils: a scientific and medicinal approach -- Strategies of solvent system selection for the isolation of natural products by countercurrent chromatography.