Revista de Ciências Biomédicas e Farmacêuticas

Pharmacognosy : significance

Abstract

Shash Zhao

“Pharmacognosy” obtains from two Greek words, “pharmakon” or drug, and “gnosis” or knowledge. Like countless complementing branchs of science, Pharmacognosy has undergone crucial change in recent years and today acts for a highly interdisciplinary science that is one of five major regions of pharmaceutical education. Humans make medicine from plants and other organisms for 100 years, hence pharmacognosy being routinely considered the oldest brand of pharmacy. There is 5000-year-old proof of medicine production on Sumerian clay from Nagpur, and throughout 12 old medicinal recipes have been found with plant ingredients such as poppy and mandrake, which is a Mediterranean plant in the nightshade family.