The present volume, ?Bioactive Phytochemicals: Perspectives for Modern Medicine , Vol. 2? presents edited information on 24 research and review communications received from eminent scientists from Brazil, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria and Turkey and includes topics like- Alkaloids and Flavonoids: Versatile and Novel Bioactive Natural Products; Tumor and its Environment; Betulinic Acid and its Derivatives; Bioactive Bibenzyls and Bis(bibenzyls)s from Bryophytes; The Hope for Potential Bioactive Phytoconstituents from Heterophragma Genus; Modulatory Efficacy of Capsaicin on Polyamine Content, DNA, RNA Levels and DNA Damage During Experimental Lung Cancer; Podophyllotoxin-A Second Generation Anticancer Drug; Phytopharmacological Review on Calophyllum inophyllum; L-DOPA, an Anti Parkinsonian Agent from Mucuna pruriens. This volume, with its balanced approach will be a valuable and important research manual, that will stimulate interest and hoped this serial book will attract the attention of scientific community particularly of phytochemists, biochemists, pharmacologists, ethnopharmacologists, ethnobotanists, and others engaged in the natural products research