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Pharmacognosy of Plants Mohamed G Elfaki* Scientist, Professor of Microbiology, Department of Infection and Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Alfaisal University College of Medicine, Saudi Arabia

Pharmacognosy is the think about of plants or other common grown medication, chemistry, biotechnology, phytochemistry, sources as a conceivable source of drugs. The American Society pharmacology, pharmaceutics, clinical drug store and drug store of Pharmacognosy characterizes pharmacognosy as "the ponder practice. of the physical, chemical, biochemical, and organic properties of Medical Ethnobotany: The ponder of the conventional utilize of drugs, medicate substances, or potential drugs or sedate substances plants for restorative purposes. of common beginning as well as the seek for modern drugs from normal sources". The word "pharmacognosy" is inferred from two Ethnopharmacology: The ponder of the pharmacological Greek words pharmakon (medicate), and gnosis (information) or the qualities of conventional therapeutic substances; the consider Latin verb cognosco (con, 'with', and gnosco, 'know'; itself a cognate of phytotherapy (the restorative utilize of plant extricates); and of the Greek verb gignosko, meaning 'I know, perceive'), meaning phytochemistry, the consider of chemicals inferred from plants 'to conceptualize' or 'to recognize'. The term "pharmacognosy" was (counting the recognizable proof of unused medicate candidates utilized for the primary time by the Austrian doctor Schmidt in determined from plant sources). The carotenoids in primrose 1811 and 1815 by Crr. Anotheus Seydler in work titled Analecta create shinning ruddy, yellow and orange shades. . Originally during the 19th century and the starting pharmacognostica All plants deliver chemical compounds as portion of their typical of the 20th century "pharmacognosy" was utilized to characterize the metabolic exercises. These phytochemicals are isolated into department of pharmaceutical or product sciences (Warenkunde in essential metabolites such as sugars and fats, which are found in German) which bargains with drugs in their rough, or ill-equipped, all plants; and auxiliary metabolites compounds which are found frame. Rough drugs are the dried, ill-equipped fabric of plant, in a littler extend of plants, serving a more particular function. creature or mineral root, utilized for medication. The ponder of For illustration, a few auxiliary metabolites are poisons utilized these materials beneath the title was to begin with pharmakognosie to prevent predation and others are pheromones utilized to pull created in German-speaking zones of Europe, whereas other dialect in creepy crawlies for fertilization. It is these auxiliary metabolites zones frequently utilized. and shades that can have helpful activities in people and which In expansion to the already said definition, the American Society can be refined to create drugs examples are inulin from the roots of Pharmacognosy moreover characterizes pharmacognosy as of dahlias, quinine from the cinchona, THC and CBD from the "the think about of characteristic item atoms (regularly auxiliary blooms of cannabis, morphine and codeine from the poppy, metabolites) that are valuable for their therapeutic, environmental, and digoxin from the foxglove. Plants synthesize assortment of gustatory, or other utilitarian properties." Other definitions are phytochemicals, but most are derivatives alkaloids are a course of more enveloping, drawing on a wide range of organic subjects, chemical components. counting botany, ethnobotany, marine science, microbiology, home

*Corresponding to: Mohamed G Elfaki, Scientist, Professor of Microbiology, Department of Infection and Immunity, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Alfaisal University College of Medicine, Saudi Arabia, E-mail: [email protected] Received: May 11, 2021; Accepted: May 16, 2021; Published: May 22, 2021 Citation: Elfaki MG (2021) Pharmacognosy of Plants. Bio Med 13: e121. Copyright: 2021 © Elfaki MG. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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