Phytomedicine Plus is a companion title to the well-established and respected journal Phytomedicine. It is an open access, quarterly, international, complementary and integrative medicine journal.
Phytomedicine Plus has a broader scope than Phytomedicine and considers articles on all aspects of pharmacognosy, traditional herbal medicine, rational phytotherapy as well as complementary and integrative medicine. The main aims of Phytomedicine Plus are associated with the integration of phytopreparations into conventional/official medicine.
Topics included, but not restricted to, are:
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
Phytomedicine Plus aims to publish high quality papers. Therefore, manuscript will be desk-rejected that:
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
Phytomedicine Plus favors herbal medicinal products with evidence-based therapeutic efficacy, but not dietary supplements and nutraceuticals.
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
