Pharmacognosy

The pharmacognosy (of the Greek pharmakon drug, venom, poison and gnosis knowledge) is the science applied dealing of the raw materials and the substances to medicamentous potentiality of biological origin. These substances of biological origin result from plants, animals or from fermentation starting from micro-organisms. Drug is the part of the body, the whole body or the totality of a Plante, a Animal or a Champignon.

Multidisciplinary character

  • the Botanical and the Ethnopharmacologie consider the history of the medicinal plants and the inventory of their use in traditional medicine.
  • the Agronomy: selection, culture, harvest, conservation and distribution of the medicinal plants.
  • the Phytochimie approaches the biogenesis of the active components and their insulation, the study of their chemical structure by means of modern analytical techniques (Spectrométrie, Chromatographie…).
  • the Pharmacology and the Toxicologie of the active components define a margin between the therapeutic effect and the toxicity of these substances.
  • the pharmaceutical analysis has methods of standardization.
  • the vegetable Biochemistry and Biotechnology: development of the methods of production In vitro of secondary metabolites by means of cultures of fabrics and vegetable cells.

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • The American Society off Pharmacognosy (Ang)
  • Research and training in Pharmacognosy (Ang)
  • Ethnopharmacology (Ang)

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