It has been suggested that several biological qualities, including anti- inammatory, antimicrobial, and antioxidant properties, have been demonstrated by extracts derived from medicinal plants (Mehta et al., 2001) (Figure 6.1). The growth of microorganisms, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and some protozoans, are signicantly inhibited by the antimicrobial substances extracted from plants through the use of different mechanisms from those of currently used antimicrobials; therefore, these plant­derived compounds have potentially important clinical value in combating different diseases caused by microorganisms (Shankar et al., 2010). Some of the plant- derived compounds, when coupled with other antimicrobials, can modify antibiotic- resistant bacteria that were not eradicated by antibiotics alone, as wellsome of these compounds exhibit both antibiotic resistance- modifying activities and intrinsic antibacterial activity. The relatively few side effects of herbal medications, when compared to those of synthetic conventional drugs, make these compounds a good candidate for eradicating micro­bial infections and the chances of developing resistance also become low in the case of using herbal medicines (Ruddaraju et al., 2020). In some cases, medicinal plants having a single active compo­nent with a specic target are used may then act in a similar way to conventional antibiotics,leading