4th Traditional Medicine and Plant Science

Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy

Medicinal plant harvesting and preservation. Plant material quality control. Identification of the material, its provenance, and macro and micromorphologic investigation are all performed. Phenols, coumarins, flavonoids, tannins, and carotenoids are all found in drugs. Schmidt, an Austrian physician, coined the term "pharmacognosy" in 1811, and Crr. Anotheus Seydler coined it in 1815 in his work Analecta Pharmacognostica. Originally, the term "pharmacognosy" was used to describe the discipline of medical or commodity sciences that deals with pharmaceuticals in their raw, or unprepared, form during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Important natural products and phytomedicines
• Quality herbal medicine used in phytotherapy
• Herbal drug research and therapy
• Natural products in drug discovery
• Ethnopharmacology