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Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines derived from natural sources like plants, microbes, and animals. It involves analyzing their biological, chemical, and physical properties. Pharmacognosy provides knowledge about plant and animal drugs and has made vital contributions to natural science through advanced technologies for cultivating, purifying, and identifying pharmaceuticals from nature. It serves as an important link between pharmaceuticals, basic science, Ayurveda, allopathy, pharmacology, and medicinal chemistry.

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Presentation1 Pharmacognosy

Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines derived from natural sources like plants, microbes, and animals. It involves analyzing their biological, chemical, and physical properties. Pharmacognosy provides knowledge about plant and animal drugs and has made vital contributions to natural science through advanced technologies for cultivating, purifying, and identifying pharmaceuticals from nature. It serves as an important link between pharmaceuticals, basic science, Ayurveda, allopathy, pharmacology, and medicinal chemistry.

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PHARMACOGNOSY:

 Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines or crude


drugs produced from natural sources such as plants,
microbes, and animals.
 It includes analysis of their biological, chemical,
biochemical, and physical properties.
INTRODUTION:
Pharmacognosy is derived from two Greek words, Pharmakon & Gnosis
 Pharmakon – means Drug
 Gnosis – means Knowledge.
The term pharmacognosy was first used by the Austrian physician Schmidt in 1811.
Originally during the 19th century and the beginning of 20th century “Pharmacognosy”
was used to define the branch of medicine which deals with drugs in their crude and
unprepared form.
CRUDE DRUG:
 Crude drugs are the dried, unprepared material of plants, animals or mineral
origins used for medicine.
Scope of pharmacognosy:
 Pharmacognosy gives a sound knowledge of the vegetable drugs
under botany and animal drugs under zoology.
 It also includes plant taxonomy, plant breeding , plant pathology,
plant genetics and by this knowledge one can improve the cultivation
methods for both medicinal and aromatic plants.
 Nowadays phytochemistry (plant chemistry) has undergone the
significant improvement.
 This includes a variety of substances that are accumulated by plants
and synthesized by plants.
 A vital contribution to the advancement of
natural science

 This has done by the advanced technologies of cultivation, purification,


identification (characterization) of pharmaceuticals from nature.
 Concepts of biochemistry and chemical engineering help in the
improvement of collection, processing and storage technologies of
pharmaceuticals.
 It also gives knowledge of chemotaxonomy, biogenic pathways for the
formation of acute ingredients.
A vital link between pharmacology and
medicinal chemistry
 Newly detected plant drugs are converting into medicine as purified
phytochemicals.
 Pharmacognosy is essential for the evolution of new medicines because
crude drugs are used for the preparation of galanicals or as a sources of
therapeutically active metabolites
 In short Pharmacognosy is an important link between pharmaceuticals
and basic science as well as ayurvedic and allopathic system of
medicines.
A vital link between pharmacology and
medicinal chemistry
 Pharmacognosy is a science of active principles of crude drugs and
which can be help in dispensing, formulating, and manufacturing of
dosage forms.
 In other way the complete knowledge of Pharmacognosy will help in
the recent trend that is in industries,
 As a research tools and in new drug delivery systems, and all the
departments of pharmaceuticals and one can improve the healthcare
facilities across the world

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