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pharmacognosy
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pharmacognosy /phar·ma·cog·no·sy/ (fahr″mah-kog´nah-se) the branch of pharmacology dealing with natural drugs and their constituents.
phar·ma·cog·no·sy (färm-kgn-s)
n.
The branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs in their crude or natural state.

pharmacognosy,
the study of chemicals taken from natural sources to be used as drugs or in the preparation of drugs. Sources may include plants, animals, or other life forms such as fungi, molds, and yeasts.

pharmacognosy [fahr″mah-kog´no-se]
the branch of pharmacology dealing with natural drugs and their constituents.

pharmacognosy (färˈ·m·kägˑ·n·sē),
n the study of medicinal and/or pharmaceutical substances derived from natural sources such as plants, fungi, and animals.

pharmacognosy
the branch of pharmacology dealing with natural drugs and their constituents.

pharmacognosy
1 Herbal medicine, see there 2. The scientific approach to and formal study of the effects and uses of medicinal plants. See Herbal medicine, Pharmacognosist; Cf Traditional herbalism.


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Areas of scientific interest: pharmacognostic study of medicinal plants, especially vicarious species; comparative chemical, pharmacological and botanic study of closely kindred species; development of plant-based preparations, standardisation of medicinal plant raw materials and phytopreparations.
Besides the known root pieces, the pharmacognostic and microscopic investigations of the powder showed no striking cell components, apart from a high content of large calcium oxalate crystals, which could provide evidence of a typical genus or species characteristics of a particular plant family or species.
a research and development facility and supplier of proprietary, biologically active plant-derived ingredients to the natural products and pharmaceutical industries, has signed a plant collection agreement with the University of Panama's School of Pharmacy and Center for Pharmacognostic Research on Panamanian Flora (CIFLORPAN).
 
 
 
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