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The plant and animal kingdoms as sources of drugs biological and geographical sources of drugs a taxonomic approach to the study of medicinal plants and animalderived drugs pharmacological activities of natural products. Fidelity levels, informant consensus factor and use values were used to obtain the most frequently used medicinal plants. The crude drugs could be from a plant, animal, or microbial origin. Pharmacognosy, medicinal plants and natural products. A large number of important modern drugs and natural products and most of the traditional medicines are derived from medicinal plants. Drawing on their wealth of experience and knowledge in this field, the authors, who are without doubt among the finest minds in pharmacognosy today, provide useful and fascinating insights into the history, botany, chemistry, phytotherapy and importance of medicinal. Specifically, this area encompasses the study of secondary metabolites, including alkaloids, glycosides, phenolic compounds, tannins, phytosterols, and terpenoids that are derived from nature, and is inclusive of plants as well as marine and terrestrial microbes and animals. Pharmacognosy embraces a number of scientific and other l disciplines providing a unified and comprehensive treatment of medicinal plants. The first records of knowledge documentation were, however, produced by shen nung a chinese emperor 2500 bc ago, describing different recipes of drug preparation from more than 300 medicinal plants for the management of. Pharmacognosy and medicinal plants pharmacognosy conferences. Pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, medicinal plants jean. In the present context pharmacognosy, since dioscoridess treatise, has spread its tentacles to investigations of a wider section of naturally occurring materials essentially comprised of plants, animals, substances originated from.
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