"SCIENTIFIC AND APPLIED PHARMACOGNOSY"

Scientific Certificate of Applied Ethics

Applied ethics is a major having a significant role in attracting the attention of the intellectuals and even the public readers regarding the importance of ethical discussions including discussions of the ethical philosophy. However, since only four decades have been passed from the contemporary approach of the scholars of ethics in this field, it is still considered to be a new and evolving d...

[Introduction of "clinical pharmacognosy"--integration between pharmacognosy and clinical pharmacy].

In Japanese hospitals or pharmacies, crude drugs and natural products are used as the components of kampo medicine and dietary supplements. Clinical pharmacy can provide information such as the efficacy, adverse action, or interactions of crude drugs or natural products as well as chemical drugs. However, it is very difficult for a clinical pharmacist without a knowledge of pharmacognosy to off...

Phytochemistry and Pharmacognosy

Nagakesara – a Comparative Pharmacognosy

Dried floral buds of Mesua ferrea Linn, dried fruits of Dillenia pentagyna Roxb and dried fruiting inflorescence of Cinnamomum wightii Meissn are used as Nagakesara in different regions of India. This elaborate study presents to the pharmacognosy of these three different drugs of Nagakesara.

Pharmacognosy of Nepeta Cataria

Nepeta cataria Linn (Family Labiatae), commonly known as catnip, is a herbaceous plant and is a native of southeast Europe, Orient, Southwest Asia and Western temperate Himalayas. Leaves and flowering tops, which contain tannin and volatile oil are aromatic, carminative, tonic, diaphoretic, refrigerant, emmenagogue, antiseptic, stimulant and useful in infantile colic and hysteria. Leaves are de...