Pharmacognosy
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Pharmacognosy is the study of crude drugs obtained from medicinal plants, animals, fungi, and other natural sources. The American Society of Pharmacognosy defines pharmacognosy as "the study of the ph
Dioscorides’ Materia Medica, c. 1334 copy in Arabic, describes medicinal features of various plants.
The carotenoids in primrose produce bright red, yellow and orange shades.
Dioscorides
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Pedanius Dioscorides, "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek pharmacologist, physician, botanist, and author of De materia medica, a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic pharmacopeia on herbal medicine and
Pharmacognosy
…developed in German-speaking areas of Europe, while other language areas often used the older term materia medica taken from the works of Galen and Dioscorides. In German, the term Drogenkunde ("science of crude drugs") is also used synonymously. As late as the beginning of the 20th century, the subject had…
Dioscorides receives a mandrake root, an illumination from the 6th century (c. 512) Greek Juliana Anicia Codex (detail)
Blackberry from the 6th-century Vienna Dioscurides manuscript
Cover of an early printed version of De materia medica, Lyon, 1554
The genus Dioscorea includes different species of yam.