Pharmacognosy Introduction Flashcards
Greek “Pharmakon” means?
Drug
“gignoso ‘ means?
to acquire knowledge of’
Greek Pharmakon, ‘a drug’
and gignoso ‘ to acquire knowledge of’ and as recorded
by?
Dr. K, Ganzinger.
First used the process of embalming?
Egyptians
is full of incantations and foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons, and also includes 877 prescriptions.
Ebers papyrus
FATHER of
PHARMACEUTICAL
COMPoUNDING?
Claudius Galen
Wrote “De Materia
Medica” or the Medicinal
Material
Pedanius Dioscorides
The
foremost classical source
of modern botanical
terminology and the
leading
pharmacological text
De Materia Medica
He describes methods
and formulas of
preparing drugs
containing plant and
animal drugs
Claudius Galen
Coined the term pharmacognosy from
PHARMAKON and GNOSIS
C. Aenotheus Seydler
Wrote the book “Analecta
Pharmacognistica”?
C. Aenotheus Seydler
Used the word Pharmacognosy in his
Lehrbuch der Materia Medica
Johann Adam Schmidt
Determined the
scope of
pharmacognosy?
Friedrich August
Fluckiger
“simultaneous
application of
various scientific
disciplines with
the object of
acquiring drugs
from every point
of view”
Friedrich August
Fluckiger
Discovers quinine w/ the collaboration of Pelletiere
Joseph Caventou
Discovers morphine
Friedrich Serturner
Father of Botany
Theophrastus
Vegetable or animal drugs consists of
natural substances that had
undergone only the processes of
collection and drying
Crude drugs
Plant growing
in their native
Countries
Indigenous plants
liquid/ liquid mixture used
to extract drug/active
substances
Menstruum/Solvent
the undissolved
portion of the drug that
remains
Marc
Special drying process that enhances the
properties of the plant’s active ingredients
Curing
FINAL STEP IN THE
PREPARATION OF
CRUDE DRUGS
Garbling
Physical separation
of sample from
extraneous material
– Soil, dirt, parts other
than part desired.
Garbling/Dressing
