Chapter 1. Recent advances on the discovery of plants derived bioactive scaffolds/extracts against parasitic diseases -- Chapter 2. Applications of Computational Methods in Natural Products based Drug Discovery -- Chapter 3. Natural Product-Based Drug Designing for treatment of Human parasitic diseases -- Chapter 4. Secondary Metabolites of Plant Origin in Parasitic manifestations -- Chapter 5. Exploring marine biodiversity as alternative resources for treatment of Human Parasitic Diseases -- Chapter 6. Marine Bioprospecting for the Treatment of Human Parasitic Diseases -- Chapter 7. Microorganisms-Derived Biochemicals: Potential Drugs for Human Parasitic Diseases -- Chapter 8. Plant-Based Vaccines against Human Parasitic Diseases -- Chapter 9. Nanotechnology: its usages in drug delivery for the treatment of Human Parasitic Diseases -- Chapter 10. Therapeutic Potential Of Benzopyrones Against Antiparasitic Diseases -- Chapter 11. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): current state and future prospectsfor the treatment of human parasitic diseases -- Chapter 12. Pathway To Register Natural Product-Derived Therapeutics -- Chapter 13. Recent Advances in the Treatment of Parasitic Diseases: Current Status and Future -- Chapter 14. Strategies and challenges for developing plant-based therapeutics against Protozoans -- Chapter 15. Recent approaches to combat toxoplasma gondii with plant-derived alternatives -- Chapter 16. Target-based rational improvement strategies and pitfalls in Leishmania drug discovery -- Chapter 17. Versatile Structurally Diverse Natural Products and Their Semisynthetic Analogs as Potential Anti-leishmanial Drugs -- Chapter 18. Promising compounds of plant origin and their synthetic analogs against Trypanosomes -- Chapter 19. Pathogenesis and Immune Response inT. cruzi infection: Quest for Natural compound-based drugs -- Chapter 20. Limitations of current drugs and prospects of plant-based compounds and their constructed analogues as therapeutics for treatment of malaria -- Chapter 21. An Analytical Approach to Progression in Malaria Therapeutics -- Chapter 22. Malaria Drug Discovery: How to tackle the problem of Drug Resistance -- Chapter 23. Approaches to drug discovery against Ascariasis: Opportunity and challenges in plant-based products -- Chapter 24. The Potential of Plant Secondary Metabolites as Drugs or Leads Against Helminths -- Chapter 25. Drug Resistance in Helminth parasites: Role of plant based natural therapeutics -- Chapter 26. Schistosomiasis: current and future strategies to develop novel therapeutics.