Davyson de Lima

1 Introduction Medicinal plants have supported human health for millennia, as evidenced by ancient records across cultures from Mesopotamia to China (Arya et al., 2022). Ethnobotanical traditions and early pharmacological texts document extensive plant-based treatments, while aquatic and marine organisms have also contributed bioactive compounds to traditional medicine (Jia et al., 2004; Aasim et al., 2019).