A Targeted Approach to Extraction and High-throughput Mass Spectrometric Profiling of Secondary Metabolites in Aerial Parts of Geranium rotundifolium

Abstract

Plants are of great importance as they provide us oxygen, food, shelter and are also used to cure a lot of ailments etc. Healing of different diseases using plants having medicinal properties is as old as man. People use barks, fruits, leaves, stems and roots etc. of the plants as traditional medicines. They have always looked for the cure of diseases in nature. Paracelsus once stated, " All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the challenge of science is to find it." The scientists around the world have spent their lives in solving the mysteries behind the medicinal properties of the plants. Also, Avicenna said, "There are no incurable diseases, only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs, only the lack of knowledge." So, it indicates that the more we explore, the more we know about medicinal plants. We may find cure ofthe diseases that seem incurable and their underlying mechanisms if we investigate more on plants.