In drug discovery, abundant examples of the synergistic combination of compounds are well known to exhibit a better performance than the individual isolated compounds. The combinations can be very complex giving rise to study areas by themselves such as polypharmacy , traditional medicine , botanicals , nutraceuticals, screening, and deconvolutions of mixture combinatorial libraries . For example, polypharmacy refers to using multiple medications to treat one disease or condition, while traditional medicine often employs combinations of herbs or natural extracts to treat various ailments.