Phyto therapy

 

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

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