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Section I: Traditional medicine and Drug discovery 1. Drug discovery from Ayurveda: Mode of approach and applications 2. Traditional and folk medicine as target for drug discovery 3. Bioactivity guided phyto-fractions: an emerging natural drug discovery tool for safe and effective disease management 4. Development of Chinese herbal health products for the prevention of aging-associated diseases 5. Ethnobotany / ethnopharmacology and bioprospecting: Issues on knowledge and uses of medicinal plants by Moroccan people 6. Chemotaxonomy of medicinal plants: Possibilities and limitations Section II: Leads from Natural Products 7. The role of natural products from plants in the development of anticancer agents 8. Plant drugs in the treatment of osteoporosis 9. Phytodrugs and immunomodulators for the therapy of Leishmaniasis 10. Natural products targeting inflammation processes and multiple mediators 11. Biologically functional compounds from mushroom-forming fungi 12. Natural products in lifestyle diseases: In vitro screening 13. Common toxic plants and their forensic significance 14. Role of stress in diseases and its remedial approach by herbal and natural products in stress related disease management: Experimental studies and clinical reports 15. Anti-inflammatory medicinal plants: A remedy for most disease conditions Section III: Herbal drug research 16. Techniques and technologies for the biodiscovery of novel small molecule drug lead compounds from natural products 17. Herb and drug interaction 18. Toxicity studies related to medicinal plants 19.Prebiotics: A functional food in health and disease 20. Cultivation of medicinal plants 21. Digitization of traditional knowledge 22. Good agricultural practices: Requirement for the production of quality herbal medicines 23. Fundamentals of microwave based sample preparation for plant based drug discovery