PCOG EXAM Flashcards
Who introduced the term pharmacognosy?
Christianus Seydler
deals with the biological, biochemical and economic features of biological origins and its constituents?
Pharmacognosy
What are the focuses of pharmacognosy?
- Identification of plants and animals
- Chemistry
- Evaluation, preservation or use of application of crude drugs
- Toxicology
- History, distribution, Collection and Selection
- Preparation and Commerce
- Botany and Horticulture
- Pharmacology
- Quality Control
It is also referred to as (conventional medicine?)
Western Medicine
It treats diseases? unani and ayurvedic medicine
RASAYANA HERBS
it is practiced in india from china and japan?
Oriental Medicine
Substances and products derived from natural sources and employed by physicians in the old day?
Medicinal Materials (Materia Medica)
it is also known as Medicinal material?
Materia Medica
contain drug monographs with set of specification for identity, strength, quality, purity, packaging and labelling for substances and dosage forms?
Pharmacopeia
Contains standards for medicines, dosage forms, drug substances, excipients, and other therapeutics
Pharmacopeia
Document that specifies all the tests to be conducted on a
product and/or appropriate references containing details
of procedure and expected result.
Specification
What are the five civilizations?
1 BABYLONIANS
2 EGYPTIANS
3 HINDUS
4 GREEK
5 GERMAN
its historical background is made by clay of human body?
Have early writing and aware of medicinal effects of plants (200plants)
BABYLONIANS
its historical background is embalming and mummification
Egyptians
Papyrus and Ebers
Egyptian historical background
what plant was found in the nile river?
cyperus papyrus
its historical background is Ayurveda
HINDUS
the balance of body, mind and spirit?
and also known as the “mother of all healing arts?”
Ayurveda
The oldest from its ancient Sanskrit roots
Ayurveda
what does ayus and veda mean?
ayus is life
veda is knowledge
Also called as “great triad or Bhrat-Trayi’
Ayurvedic References
it belong to the practice ayurveda/ayurvedic medicine
Great triad or Bhrat-Trayi
its definition is the text on internal medicine book of symptoms (184 chapters and 1,120 illnesses)
CHARAKA SASHRUTA
written in poetic language
ASHTANGA HRIDAYAM
