Description

Infectious diseases are still a major health issue, especially
in developing countries, leading to the death of millions of
people, despite enormous improvement in health care systems.
Attention is now being switch over to plants as they may present
a new source of antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral agents
(Amare et al., 2015). Plants are oldest source of pharmacologically
active compounds and have provided many medicinally useful
compounds from centuries to the mankind. The research for
natural products to cure diseases represents an area of great
interest in which plants have been the most important source