Comprehensive Questions and
Solutions Graded A+
Dioscorides - Answer: Wrote De Materia Medica
Galenical Pharmacy - Answer: Method of processes of preparing formulas containing animal
and plant drugs.
CA Sydler - Answer: Coined the term Pharmacognosy
J.A. Schmidt - Answer: wrote Lehrbuck de Materia Medica and the first one to use the term
pharmacognosy
Joseph Caventou - Answer: Discovered Quinine w/ the collaboration of Pelletiere
Pierre Robiquet - Answer: Discovered codeine and narcotine.
Rodulf Brandes - Answer: Discovered Hyoscyamine
Philip Geiger - Answer: Discovered Atropine w/ the collaboration of Rudolf Brandes
Theophrastus - Answer: Father of Botany
, Indigenous - Answer: Plant grows in their native country.
Naturalized - Answer: Grew in foreign land other than their native countries.
Natural Substances - Answer: Found in nature that comprise whole plants and herbs.
Derivatives/ Extractives - Answer: Considered as chief constituents of drugs.
Crude Drugs - Answer: Vegetable or animal drugs that consist of natural substances that have
undergone only the process of COLLECTION and DRYING.
Collection
Harvesting
Drying
Curing
Garbling
Packaging, Storage, Preservation - Answer: Steps in the preparation of crude drygs
Collection - Answer: Selection of the species to cultivate.
Harvesting - Answer: Gathering the samples at a specific and proper period or season.
Curing - Answer: Special drying process.
Curing - Answer: Enhances the properties of the active ingredient.