Pharmacognosy and Plant Chemistry
Pharmacognosy
- formed from two greek words
- Pharmakon - drug
- Gnosis/Gignosco - knowledge/study
- first coined by J.A Schmidt in 1811
- introduced by C.A Seydler in his work, Analecta Pharmacognostica, in 1815
- covered all information on medicines from natural sources
- Plants
- Animals
- Microorganisms
- Inorganic source
- an applied science that deals with the
- biologic
- biochemical
- economic features of natural drugs and their constituents
- embraces a knowledge of the
- history
- distribution
- cultivation
- collection
- selection
- preparation
History
- Babylonians
- Egyptians
- paper scrolls
- ebers papyrus
- discovered by George Ebers
- contains list of drugs
- embalming
- use of myrrh
- Pedanios Dioscorides
- father of pharmacognosy
- wrote de materia medica libre cinque
- use of aloe for treating burns
- use of colchicine
- use of atropine
- use of ergot alkaloids
- use of opiods
- Christianus Aenotheus Seydler
- first introduced the term pharmacognosy in his work, Analecta Pharmacognostica, in 1815
- Johann Adam Schmidt
- first coined the term pharmacognosy in his work, Lehrbuch der Materia Medica, in 1811
- Claudius Galen
- originated galenicals
- medicinals obtained from compounding
- drugs with specific formula
- father of pharmaceutical compounding
- antidotaria and receptaria
- India
- China
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