• Question: what is pharmacognosy?

    Asked by anon-199386 to Sylvia on 1 Mar 2019.
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      Sylvia Soldatou answered on 1 Mar 2019:


      Is the study of natural product molecules isolated from plants, marine organisms (sponges, algae, corals) and (marine) microorganisms for therapeutic uses. The are many examples of medicines that have derived from molecules isolated from natural sources and are curerrently in the market as anticancer and antiviral drugs

      Thruth is that the term “pharamcognosy” is not very popular anymore and people in the field tend to use the term “natural product chemistry”

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