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is regarded as the “mother of all science”

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pharmacognosy

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pharmacognosy is regarded as

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mother of all science

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They acquired knowledge of medicinal properties of plants in the following ways:

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  • guess work or trial & error
  • search for food
  • signature of nature
  • instict of animals between toxic & palatable
  • accidental
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4
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who monopolized the knowledge of drugs and
hide that knowledge in some incantations.

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medicine men

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Pre-Historic Evidence of Pharmacognosy

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7 out 8 species of pollen grains

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where Pre-Historic Evidence of Pharmacognosy

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Shanidar, Iraq

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  • food gathering to food producing economy
  • make use of stone as tools for hunting
  • in the history of herbalism (phytotherapy)
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New Stone Age

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NEW STONE AGE

prepared food and healing potions

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women

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NEW STONE AGE

compiled the remedies and wrote them down

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men

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land between two rivers

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mesopotamia

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  • Birch Polypore (Medicinal mushrooms)
  • SN: Piptoporus betulinus or Fomitopsis betulina
  • AC: Agaric acid
  • Uses: strong purgative (strong laxative effect that may lead to dehydration)/anti-mycobacteria, toxic
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Early Arabic and European Records

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  • Cuneiform writing
  • “Treatise of Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis” (1,600 B.C)
  • Babylonians
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Ancient Mesopotamia

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ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

the dominant system of writing in Mesopotamia

also known as baked clay tablets

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cuneiform writing

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ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

  • Consist of 40 tablets, it was collected and studied by Jean Baptiste Labat.
  • Example includes the management of excessive bleeding.
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Treatise of Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis

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ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

the Treatise of Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis consists of how many tablets

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40 tablets

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ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

Treatise of Medical Diagnosis and
Prognosis was collected and studied by

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Jean Baptiste Labat

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ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

provides the earliest known record of practice of the art of the apothecary

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Babylonians

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what is apothecary

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pharmacy

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ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

Text on clay tablet includes

4

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  • record of first symptoms of illness
  • prescription
  • directions for compounding
  • invocation to the gods
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  • sometimes called as “sorcerer”
  • Diagnose the ailment
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ashipu

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Specialist in herbal remedies

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asu

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  • Emperor Sheng Nung
  • Investigated the medicinal value of herbs by tasting herbs to discover their qualities.
  • Written the first Pen T-Sao which is a recording of 365 drug
  • He was able to study podophyllum, rhubarb, ginseng, stramonium, cinnamon bark and ephedra
  • Shang Hang Lun written by Chang Chung-Ching
  • Chin Kuei Yao Lueh
  • Pen T’sao Jing Ji Zhu written by Tao Hong Jing
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Ancient China

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ANCIENT CHINA

Investigated the medicinal value of herbs by tasting herbs to discover their qualities.

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Emperor Sheng Nung

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ANCIENT CHINA

Emperor Sheng Nung wrote the first ____ which is a recording of 365 drugs

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Pen T-Sao

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ANCIENT CHINA

how many drugs does Pen T-Sao contains

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365

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ANCIENT CHINA

Emperor Sheng Nung studied the herbs by

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tasting the herbs

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ANCIENT CHINA

classification of the 365 drugs based on Emperor Sheng Nung

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  • Emperor’s Herb
  • Minister’s Herb
  • Servant’s Herb
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ANCIENT CHINA

food grade herb, for large intakes, safe

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Emperor’s herb

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ANCIENT CHINA

mildly toxic, slight irritation

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Minister’s herb

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ANCIENT CHINA

generally poisonous

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Servant’s herb

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ANCIENT CHINA

cinnamon bark was first found in

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Ceylon

known today as Sri Lanka

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ANCIENT CHINA

ephedra is also called as

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Ma Huang

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ANCIENT CHINA

Shang Hang Lun is written by

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Chang Chung-Ching

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ANCIENT CHINA

  • Companion book of Shang Hang Lun
  • Historical origin of the most important classical herbal formulas that have became the basis of Chinese and Chinese-Japanese herbalism “kampo”
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Chin Kuei Yao Lueh

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ANCIENT CHINA

Chinese-Japanese herbalism

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kampo

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ANCIENT CHINA

Pen T’sao Jing Ji Zhu is written by

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Tao Hong Jing

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ANCIENT CHINA

730 herbs, described and classified into 6 categories

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Pen T’sao Jing Ji Zhu

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ANCIENT CHINA

how many herbs in Pen T’sao Jing Ji Zhu

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730

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ANCIENT CHINA

the herbs are described and classified into how many categories in Pen T’sao Jing Ji Zhu

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6 categories

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ANCIENT CHINA | KAMPO

traditional Japanese medicine, is sometimes referred to as

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low dose Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)

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ANCIENT CHINA | KAMPO

the compendium of Japanese medicine.

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daidoruijoho

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ANCIENT CHINA | KAMPO

a court physician who compiled the Ishinho

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Yasuyori Tamba

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ANCIENT CHINA | KAMPO

consisted of 30 scrolls detailing the medical knowledge of the Sui and T’ang dynasties.

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Ishinho

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ANCIENT CHINA

  • Standard pharmaceutical system has been established throughout China
  • The preparation differs according to the needs for the treatment of disease.
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Sung dynasty

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ANCIENT CHINA

  • Bibliography of the History of Sui (Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi)
  • How to Cultivate Herbs (Zhong Zhi Yue Fa)
  • How to Collect Herbs in the Forest (Ru Lin Cai Yue Fa)
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Sui dynasty

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ANCIENT CHINA

  • Herbal with Commentary (Pen T’sao Kan Mu). Written by Li Shi Zhen.
  • With 3 revisions, the book contains 1892 drugs, 376 described for the first time with 1,160 drawings. It also contains more than 11,000 prescriptions.
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Later Ming dynasty

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ANCIENT CHINA

Herbal with Commentary

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Pen T’sao Kan Mu

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ANCIENT CHINA

Pen T’sao Kan Mu is written by

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Li Shi Zhen

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ANCIENT CHINA

Pen T’sao Kan Mu contains how many drugs described for the first time

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376

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ANCIENT CHINA

Pen T’sao Kan Mu contains how many drugs

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1892

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ANCIENT CHINA

Pen T’sao Kan Mu contains how many prescriptions

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11,000

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52
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  • Ebers Papyrus
  • Edwin Smith Papyrus
  • Kahun Medical Papyrus
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Ancient Egypt

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ANCIENT EGYPT

  • The most complete medical document, the oldest and the most important medical papyri of ancient Egypt;
  • It is a collection of 800 prescriptions, mentioning 700 drugs;
  • Is a 110-page scroll, which is about 20 meters long.
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Ebers Papyrus

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54
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ANCIENT EGYPT

Ebers Papyrus is named after

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George Ebers

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ANCIENT EGYPT

Ebers Papyrus contains how many prescriptions

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800

56
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ANCIENT EGYPT

Ebers Papyrus mentions how many drugs

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700

57
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ANCIENT EGYPT

how many pages is the Ebers Papyrus

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110

58
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ANCIENT EGYPT

each scroll of the Ebers Papyrus is how many meters long

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20 meters

59
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ANCIENT EGYPT

contains surgical instructions and formulas for cosmetics (contains heavy metals)

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Edwin Smith Papyrus

60
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ANCIENT EGYPT

is the oldest and deals with health of women, including birthing instructions

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Kahun Medical Papyrus

61
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Ayurveda means

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ayur - life
veda - study of
“Biology”
“study of life”

62
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  • mentioned medicines from plants like ricinus, pepper, lily, valerian etc.
  • has three main parts and three minor parts
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Ayurvedic writing

63
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AYURVEDIC WRITING

what does ricinus produce

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castor oil

64
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AYURVEDIC WRITING

a book that is similar to chinese Pen T’sao

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Samhita

65
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  • Indonesian traditional medicine
  • Carvings at the temple of Borobudur, depict the use of kalpataruh leaves (‘the tree that never dies’) to make medicines
  • Two of the most important manuscripts – Serat kawruh bab jampi-jampi (‘A treatise on all manner of cures’) and Serat Centhini (‘Book of Centhini’) – are in the Surakarta Palace library.
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Jamu

66
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JAMU | INDONESIAN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

Carvings at the temple of Borobudur, depict the use of

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kalpataruh leaves

67
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JAMU | INDONESIAN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

kalpataruh leaves is also called as

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the tree that never dies

68
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JAMU | INDONESIAN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

Serat kawruh bab jampi-jampi

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A treatise on all manner of cures

69
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JAMU | INDONESIAN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

Serat Centhini

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Book of Centhini

70
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JAMU | INDONESIAN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE

local name of Java tea

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balbas pusa

71
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  • Suggest that around 2500 B.C, Sumerians already had commerce of crude drugs.
  • Assyrians 660 B.C 250 drugs were recognized, discovered and cultivated by them.
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King Ashurbanipal

72
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how many drugs were recognized, discovered, and cultivated by the Assyrians

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250

73
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the Father of Medicine

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Hippocrates

74
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  • known to be as the first nature doctor
  • he advocated water/hydrotherapy
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Hippocrates

75
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ANCIENT GREECE & ROME

A student of great philosopher Plato listed more than 500 plants of medicinal importance with their description and uses.

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Aristotle

76
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ANCIENT GREECE & ROME

  • Wrote the De Historia Plantarum and De Causis Plantarum.
  • These book contains many kinds of plants and how they are used in medicine, how to grow them.
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Theophrastus

77
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ANCIENT GREECE & ROME

books that Theophrastus wrote

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De Historia Plantarum
De Causis Plantarum

78
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ANCIENT GREECE & ROME

  • First herbalist who produced an illustrated work on medicinal plants
  • also known to be the Father of Ancient phytography (the art and science of plant illustration)
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Krateus

79
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  • wrote De Materia Medica
  • unofficial Father of Pharmacology
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Pedanios Dioscorides

80
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Pedanios Dioscorides wrote ____

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De Materia Medica

81
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  • Is an organized pharmaceutical and medical knowledge;
  • Gives information pertaining to drug and their usage;
  • concerning medical matter in five volumes.
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De Materia Medica libri quinque

82
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how many volumes of De Materia Medica

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5

83
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  • wrote Natural History
  • He reports from writings of many authors whose work does not survive.
  • known to be the Ancient plagiarist
  • He extensively copied the manuscripts to preserve from war and fires and compiled them.
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Pliny de Elder

84
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largest collection on plants from the Roman Period. Serves as a valuable resource for the medicinal uses of plants in ancient medicine

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Natural history

85
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a 3rd Century AD Greek physician, who codified the preparation of drugs using multiple ingredients by mechanical means called galenicals

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Claudius Galen

86
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reqs for Galenicals

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  • natural / plant origin
  • mechanical preparation
87
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  • Medicinal materials
  • Substances and products derived from natural sources and was employed by the physician during the Ancient Greece and Rome
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Materia medica

88
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MIDDLE AGES

  • one of the brilliant contributors to Pharmacy and Medicine.
  • He wrote Book of Healing (Kitab Al-Shifa) and the Canon of Medicine.
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Ibn Sina

89
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  • Ibn Sina
  • beginning of trade
  • Persian Galen
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Middle ages

90
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MIDDLE AGES

what did Ibn Sina wrote

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Book of Healing (Kitab Al-Shifa)
Canon of Medicine

91
Q

Pharmacy was separated from Medicine in

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Sicily & southern Italy

92
Q

he presented subject Pharmacists with the first European edict completely separating their responsibilities from those of Medicine, and prescribing regulations for their professional practice

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Frederick II of Hohenstaufen

93
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  • Herbarium Apuleius
  • The Leech Vook of Bald
  • Family Myddvai
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Anglo-Saxon Leechcraft

94
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anglo saxon means

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old english

95
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ANGLO-SAXON LEECHCRAFT

one of the most copied herbal manuscripts, contains over 100 herbs

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herbarium apuleius

96
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ANGLO-SAXON LEECHCRAFT

contains many formulas and herbal remedies in a fairly sophisticated system of therapeutics.

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the leech book of bald

97
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ANGLO-SAXON LEECHCRAFT

practiced herbalism in a highly artful degree, their work is written in Physicians of Myddvai.

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family myddvai

98
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  • During the Middle Ages, remnants of Western knowledge of Pharmacy and Medicine were preserved in the monasteries (5th – 12th centuries).
  • Manuscripts were translated or copied for monastery libraries.
  • Monks cultivate herbs in the garden, herbs were prepared based on the art of apothecary
A

Monastic pharmacy

99
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Otto Brunfels
Hiernonymus Bock

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the renaissance

100
Q
  • The First Official Pharmacopoeia
  • originated in Florence, Italy
  • It was published and became the legal standard for the city-state in 1498.
  • Guild of Apothecaries and Medical Society
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De Nuovo Receptario

101
Q

Father of Modern Phytography

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Hiernonymus Bock

102
Q

wrote Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians)

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martin de la cruz

103
Q

skeletal muscle relaxant

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curare

104
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  • Father of Toxicology
  • introduced minerals into medical practice and called for the extraction of the active principle from animals, plants or minerals.
  • According to him, healing was due to ‘the power of life, which is only supported by the medical doctor and the medicine’
A

Theophrastus Bombastus of Hohenheim
Paracelsus

105
Q

the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries was founded in

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London

106
Q

it formed its own garden of medicinal plants, known today as the Chelsea Physic Garden

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Worshipful Society of Apothecaries

107
Q
  • One of the most well-known English apothecaries (and astrologers) of the 17th century
  • Known for ‘Culpeper’s herbal’
  • This is the only herbal that rivals in popularity John Gerard’s General historie of plantes
A

Nicholas Culpeper

108
Q

Pharmacognosy was found in what year

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1811

109
Q
  • Johann Adam Schmidt (1759-1809)
  • Carolus Linnaeus (naming and classifying plants - Binomial nomenclature)
  • At the end, crude drugs were still being used as powders, simple extracts, or tinctures.
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18th century

110
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  • the chemical structures of many of the isolated compounds were determined.
  • The progress achieved during this century in the field of botanical sciences had a direct influence in Pharmacognosy.
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19th century

111
Q

led to the development of a field of research now called natural product chemistry or, specifically for plants, phytochemistry where pharmaceutical properties of plants are due to specific molecules that can be isolated and characterized.

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early 19th century

112
Q

Morphine from opium poppy was first identified by

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Friedrich Wilhelm Sertürner

113
Q

Salicin, from willow bark was first isolated by

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Johannes Buchner

114
Q

Salicin, from willow bark was derivatized first by ____ to yield salicylic acid

A

Rafaele Pirea

115
Q

Salicin, from willow bark was later derivatized by ____ to yield acetylsalicylic acid or aspirin

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bayer company

116
Q

Quinine, from cinchona bark was first isolated by

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Pierre Joseph Pelletier and Joseph Bienaime Caventou

117
Q

Atropine is from

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belladonna

118
Q

Atropine (1833), from belladonna (Atropa belladonna L., Solanaceae), was used at the time for

A

asthma

119
Q

Coniine, a highly poisonous natural product, was first isolated in 1826 from
* Socrates used this to commit suicide
* it was the first alkaloid to have its structure elucidated

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hemlock

120
Q

Emetine is from ____ used as an emetic and as well as in cough medications

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ipecacuanha

121
Q

Strychnine is from ____ and was used as a tonic and stimulant

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nux-vomica

122
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  • French physiologist - conducted detailed studies on the pharmacological effects of plant extracts, studied curare – a drug and arrow poison used by the American Indians of the Amazon
  • He was also able to demonstrate that the main cause of death was by muscular paralysis, and that animals showed no signs of nervousness or pain.
A

CLAUDE BERNARD

123
Q

the botanical source of curare was identified as

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Chondrodendrone tomentosum

124
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  • Animal kingdom;
  • Microorganisms
  • Tremendous work has been done in this field and phytochemistry as a distinct branch in science was evolved.
  • Constituents isolated from the plants were not only used as such, buy they were also used for semi-synthesis and also as model for the synthetic drugs
A

20th century

125
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20TH CENTURY

Discovery of the antibacterial properties of fungal metabolites such as benzylpenicillin, by

A

Florey & Fleming

126
Q

Advent of synthetic chemistry in the field of pharmacy.
Where ____; used methylene blue (chemotherapeutic agent) in the treatment of mild forms of malaria in 1891

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Paul Ehrlich

127
Q

Father of Modern Chemotherapy

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Paul Ehrlich

128
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  • 1st British Pharmacognosist; gave Pharmacognosy its pharmaceutical basis and application;
  • founder of British Pharmacognosy
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Jonathan Pereira

129
Q

most outstanding applied pharmacognosist

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Daniel Hanbury

130
Q

applied pharmacognosist who stand out both in quality and quantity.

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E. M Holmes

131
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transformed the old academic pharmacognosy by their contribution to the elimination of adulteration from powdered drugs.

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H. G. Greenish and T. E. Wallis

132
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  • researches dealt particularly on the morphology, physiology and biochemistry of drug plants.
  • She has done studies on the pharmacognosy of agar (from Philippine seaweed), rauwolfia, datura, mint and piper species; these are considered pioneering research efforts in local pharmaceutical science.
A

Magdalena C. Cantoria

133
Q

pharmakon means

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drug

134
Q

gignosco means

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to acquire knowledge

135
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  • Discovered the use of digitalis and published “An Account of The Foxglove and Some of Its Medicinal Uses”.
  • In 1875, the first active part of foxglove was isolated and called digitoxin.
A

William Withering

136
Q
  • Isolated the first opium’s narcotic principle morphine.
  • He also recognize and prove the importance of alkaloids.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Seturner

137
Q

They isolated:
* Emetine - ipecacuanha
* Strychnine & Burcine - nux vomica
* Quinine and Cinchonine - cinchona barks

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Joseph-Bieniamin Caventou and Pierre-Joseph Pelletier

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