To consider what instruments are needed for natural product research and development, first of all, we should consider what steps are involved in natural product research and development: natural product discovery should be separated, purified, molecular structure determination, laboratory preparation and pilot scale-up, pharmaceuticals should also be added to the preclinical pharmacology, toxicology experiments (involving various types of experimental animals feeding, injection, external application of the drug coating, experimental animals, death, autopsy, Pathological analysis), drug clinical trials, in vivo drug analysis, monitoring, post-clinical drug (after the drug on the market) of the comprehensive evaluation, etc., non-medical products to consider environmental pollution, degradation and other circumstances, polymer materials to carry out physical and chemical properties of the evaluation (such as hardness, toughness, ductility, optical properties, acid resistance, etc.), so the instruments used in a lot of: 1. Usually used in chemical experiments of various types of Glass instruments, such as: test tubes, test paper, glass rods, liquid funnels, distillers, filtration instruments, etc., 2. For instrumental analysis of various types of instruments: chromatography, moisture meter, mass spectrometer, spectrometer, biochemical analyzers, etc., 3. Used for experimental animal pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, toxicology, used to feed the instrument, syringes, surgical tools, microscopes and so on, 4. For clinical experiments of various types of instruments: Blood concentration detector, for human pathology and toxicology analysis of various types of instruments (part of the case will be used on the biochemical analytical instruments), 5. non-medical products but also environmental protection experiments, analysis: such as, concentrators, dust meter, etc., polymer performance evaluation to use the hardness tester, material ductility bending test instruments, material fracture analysis instruments and so on.
This question is too broad, targeted not very strong, the practical significance is not very large. One cannot experiment with all the aspects I mentioned above because they involve many industries. When you specialize in a certain type of research, it will be obvious exactly what instruments to use.