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What is a pharmacognosy?

What is a pharmacognosy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A branch of pharmacology that studies medical substances that are derived from natural sources, and their recognition.
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Education in the specialty of pharmacognosy would be made a priority.
Miriam has been involve with natural and alternative healing methods for decades, building on her knowledge of medicine, anthropology, botany and pharmacognosy.
Peter Houghton, emeritus professor of pharmacognosy at King's College London, has studied buddleia for 30 years, and has spent many an afternoon on a railway siding digging up its peppery-smelling roots.
In the laboratory of pharmacognosy and phytochemistry, we are studying natural products chemistry.
Dr. Varro Tyler, an American expert on herbs and an emeritus professor of pharmacognosy at Purdue University, said lemon grass does indeed help to dispel gas and is an insect repellent.
Inventor of reverse pharmacognosy, an innovating method for vegetable screening to develop actives used in various industries.

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