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literally means, a knowledge of drugs or pharmaceuticals
PHARMACOGNOSY
Maybe defined as, “an applied science that deals with the biologic, biochemical and economic features of natural drugs and their constituents.”
PHARMACOGNOSY
It is a study of drugs that originate in the plant and animal kingdom.
PHARMACOGNOSY
Embraces a knowledge of the history, distribution, cultivation, collection, selection, preparation, commerce, identification, evaluation, preservation, use of drugs, and economic substances that affect the health of humans and other animals
THE STUDY OF CRUDE DRUGS
also called Unani tibb, Arabian medicine, or Islamic medicine, a traditional system of healing and health maintenance observed in South Asia
Unani medicine
The origins of Unani medicine are found in the doctrines of the ancient Greek physicians
Hippocrates and Galen
As a field, it was later developed and refined through systematic experiment by the Arabs, most prominently by Muslim scholar-physician
Avicenna
(“Ayurveda” for short)
Ayurvedic medicine
is one of the world's oldest holistic (“whole-body”) healing systems. It was developed more than 3,000 years ago in India.
Ayurvedic medicine
Ayurvedic medicine based on the belief that health and wellness depend on a delicate balance between the (blank). Its main goal is to promote good health, not fight disease. But treatments may be geared toward specific health problems.
mind, body, and spirit.
Herbal Manuscripts
Papyrus ebers
– De Materia Medica
Dioscorides –
method of preparing formulas containingplant and animal drugs
Galen
The Father of Pharmacy
Claudius Galenus or Galen
a medical student in Germany in 1815 introduced the term “Pharmacognosy”, from 2 Greek words;
C.A. Seydler-
“pharmakon
\= drug
“gnosis”
knowledge
- A physician in Vienna, described the study of medicinal plants and their properties.
J.A. SCHMIDT (Johann A.)
He coined the term Pharmacognosy, from the Latinword;
✓ “pharmakon” – a drug
✓ “gignoso” (blank)
to acquire knowledge of
J.A. SCHMIDT (Johann A.) authored _______= 1811
‘Lehrbuch der materia medica’
