Essentials of Botanical ExtractionPrinciples and Applications
2015, Pages 19–33
Chapter 3 – Botanicals as a Screening Source of New Drugs: Past Success Stories and Present-Day Concerns
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Abstract
It
is quite likely that the knowledge of herbal remedies in traditional
cultures throughout the world must have developed through trial and
error over many centuries, and that the most important information on
cures of ailments was cautiously passed on orally from one generation to
another. For the first time, the subject Pharmacognosy was defined as a
pharmaceutical discipline in 1815 by Seidler. Pharmacognosy is defined
as a science that encompasses everything about drugs originating from
plants or animals source apart from describing them correctly and under a
general idea to connect this knowledge. Pharmacognosy during the
nineteenth century was by far the most important pharmaceutical
discipline and the mother of all present-day pharmaceutical disciplines.
Various aspects of Pharmacognosy that had played a predominant role in
shaping humankind with respect to medical cures and natural product drug
discovery for the modern drug industries are presented here.
Keywords
- Botanicals;
- Drug discovery;
- Herbal remedies;
- Materia Medica;
- Pharmacognosy
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