Introduction Flashcards
Applied science that deals with biochemical, biological, and economic features of your biological products and their origins.
Pharmacognosy
Deals with medicinal in their crude or unprepared form
Pharmacognosy
1st to use clay models in studying plants or animals
Babylonians
Discovered by George Ebers
Egyptian Document in human anatomy, plants, and animals
Papyrus Ebers
Father of Botany
De Materia Medical
Dioscorides
Description of 600 medicinal plants
Dioscorides
Greek RPh and MD
Galenicals -method of process of preparing plant and animals drugs
Claudius Galen
Introduced the term pharmacognosy
Pharmakon - drug
Gnosis - knowledge
CA Seydler
Coined
First to use the word pharmacognosy in his writing
Schmidt
Comprehensive definition of pharmacognosy
- simultaneous application of various scientific principle to acquire knowledge of drugs in every point of view
Directly obtained from natural resouces
Natural
Manufactured by total or partial synthesis
Synthetic
Vegetable and animal drug that consist of natural substance that have undergone only the process of collection and drying
Crude Drugs
Substance found in nature
Natural Substances
Chief Principle that have been separated from plant origin via extraction
Derivative/Extractive