- Pharmacological studies on isolated natural products, medicinal herbs, plant extracts and herbal mixtures (including pharmacological mode of action analyses, systems biology and network pharmacology
- Preclinical safety and toxicity studies (including drug-herb interactions, herbal drug contaminations and adulterations)
- Phytochemistry (including bio-guided screening, extraction, separation, purification, and structure elucidation of natural products)
- Phytochemical analytical methods (development, validation and application)
- Botanical identification, standardization, quality control studies and biomarker evaluation
- Plant biotechnology related to medicinal herbs
- Plant biochemistry and plant molecular biology related to medicinal herbs
- Biopharmacy and pharmaceutical technology related to natural products and medicinal herbs (including formulation, delivery systems and nanotechnology, antibody-natural product conjugates etc.)
- Pharmacokinetic studies
- Retrospective and prospective clinical trials, observational studies and case reports
- Prevention and intervention studies
- Studies on ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology and ethnomedicine
- Traditional medicine (including terrestrial and marine plants, fungi, and algae)
- Rational approaches of complementary medicine
- Integrative medicine
- Nutritional, agricultural and horticultural products with defined health claim
- Legislative and regulatory affairs
- Systematic reviews
- Do not contain positive control experiments
- Contain phytochemically non-sufficiently characterized extracts of herbs and herbal mixtures (chemoprofile by HPLC, GC, NMR etc.; quantitation of markers).
- Report only on trivial bioactivities (e.g. antioxidant activity)
- Report on in vivo activities with not more than one applied drug dose
- The journal covers the following sections:
- Behavioral, mental, affective, and stress-associated disorders
- Age-associated disorders
- Neuropharmacology
- Endocrine pharmacology
- Metabolic syndrome and obesity
- Cancer
- Immunopharmacology, inflammation
- Infectious diseases
- Pulmonary, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and urogenital diseases
- Pharmacological mode-of-action analyses
- Systems biology and network pharmacology
- Preclinical safety and toxicology assessment
- Pharmacokinetics of natural compounds
- Clinical pharmacology and toxicology (randomized, placebo controlled, double blind, and observational open label studies)
- Biotechnology, plant biochemistry and molecular biology
- Identification, standardization and quality control of herbal preparations
- Legislation of botanicals and regulatory affairs
- Biopharmacy and Technology with natural products and herbs
- Invited systematic reviews
Volume 1, Issue 1: February 2021
Volume 1, Issue 2: May 2021
Volume 1, Issue 3: August 2021
Volume 1, Issue 4: November 2021
Volume 2, Issue 1: February 2022
Volume 2, Issue 2: May 2022
Volume 2, Issue 3: August 2022
Volume 2, Issue 4: November 2022
Volume 3, Issue 1: February 2023
Volume 3, Issue 2: May 2023
Volume 3, Issue 3: August 2023
Volume 3, Issue 4: November 2023
Volume 4, Issue 1: February 2024
Volume 4, Issue 2: May 2024
Volume 4, Issue 3: August 2024
Volume 4, Issue 4: November 2024