classify the curriculum in different groups of pharmacognosy subject
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1. Introduction to Pharmacognosy Siju Prakash Assistant Professor Veerayatan institute of Pharmacy
2. Pharmacognosy Pharmacognosy is a branch of pharmacy which deals with the basic resources of medicines from nature (plant & animal) and their uses as medicaments from ancient time to present day. • Pharmacognosy is derived from two Greek words, Pharmakon & Gnosis • Pharmakon – means ‘drug’. • Gnosis – means ‘knowledge’. • In brief, Pharmacognosy means ‘knowledge of drugs’. It is a study of drugs that originate in the plant & animal kingdoms.
3. • At present pharmacognosy involves not only the crude drugs but also their natural derivatives (pure compounds or constituents). • Digitalis leaf and its isolated glycoside, digitoxin; Rauwolfia root and its purified alkaloid, reserpine; and thyroid gland with its extracted hormone, thyroxine, are all part of the subject matter of pharmacognosy.