Natural products from medicinal plants in Asia and the Pacific for RNA viruses: Hercules' fifth labour.

Context: The emergence of zoonotic viruses in the last decades culminating with COVID-19 and challenges posed by the resistance of RNA viruses to antiviral drugs requires the development of new antiviral drugs.

Objective: This review identifies natural products isolated from Asian and Pacific medicinal plants with i and antiviral activity towards RNA viruses and analyses their distribution, molecular weights, solubility and modes of action.

Materials And Methods: All data in this review was compiled from Google Scholar, PubMed, Science Direct, Web of Science, ChemSpider, PubChem and library search from 1961 to 2022.