Natural Products from Madagascar, Socio-Cultural Usage, and Potential Applications in Advanced Biomedicine: A Concise Review

Natural products endowed of biological activity represent a primary source commodities ranging from nutrition to therapeutic agents, as well cosmetic tools and recreational principles. These natural means have been used by mankind for centuries, if not millennia. They are commonly all over the world in socio-economical contexts, but particularly attractive disadvantaged areas or economically emerging situations world. This is very likely due relatively easy recovery these bioactive principles environment, at low any cost, ease administration general popular compliance concerning their consumption/ingestion. In this concise review, we focus on some botanical origin which find wide use Madagascan populations. However, space limitations, only most common largely diffused country considered. Finally, possible nanotechnological discussed case where potential usage envisaged.