Pharmacognosy: Science of natural products in drug discovery

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Pharmacognosy deals with the natural drugs obtained from organisms such as most plants, microbes, and animals. Up to date, many important drugs including morphine, atropine, galanthamine, etc. have originated from natural sources which continue to be good model molecules in drug discovery. Traditional medicine is also a part of pharmacognosy and most of the third world countries still depend on the use of herbal medicines. Consequently, pharmacognosy always keeps its popularity in pharmaceutical sciences and plays a critical role in drug discovery.

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Orhan, I. E. (2014). Pharmacognosy: Science of natural products in drug discovery. BioImpacts, 4(3), 109–110. https://doi.org/10.15171/bi.2014.001

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