Abstract
Molecular Pharmacognosy: A Promising and Prospective Scope in the Field
Highlights
Pharmacognosy is considered one of the most attractive areas of pharmacy education
The term “Pharmacognosy” is derived from the Greek words “pharmakon” and “gnosis” and was delivered in 1811 by the Austrian physician Schmidt, in 1815 by Seydler in his work Analecta Pharmacognostica [1]. It was defined as the study of crude drugs of plant and animal origin [2,3], but such broad description can't cope with the increasing specialization in all life sciences and especially in the pharmaceutical field
Pharmacognosy originated from dealing with taxonomy and morphology of crude drugs, to focus on isolation and structure elucidation of active constituents, and recently start concerning with the potential biological activity of crude drugs, which can result in discovering novel lead drugs for certain disease or even new unknown biological activities [4]
Summary
Pharmacognosy is considered one of the most attractive areas of pharmacy education. The term “Pharmacognosy” is derived from the Greek words “pharmakon” (drug) and “gnosis” (knowledge) and was delivered in 1811 by the Austrian physician Schmidt, in 1815 by Seydler in his work Analecta Pharmacognostica [1]. Editorial compounds stimulating plant defense and can be used to increase secondary metabolites production [11].
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