Classification of Crude Drugs 2025/2026
Exam Questions and Detailed Answers |
1
Get it 100% Correct Answers
6 classifications - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1) Alphabetical
2) Morphological
3) Taxonomic
4) Pharmacological *** IMPORTANT
5) Chemical
6) Chemotaxonomical
Alphabetical - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Merits:
-Easy and quick to use
-no repetition/ devoid confusion
-easy for system location, tracing and addition of drug entries
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,DEmerits:
-NO relationship between one drug to another drug
2
Example: can't find the drug within the same family
Morphological
( according to external characters of the plant/animal parts) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Merits:
-helpful to identify/detect adulteration
-convenient for partial study esp when chemical of the drug is not clearly
understood
DEmerits:
- NO correlation of chemical of drug w/ therapeutic actions.
-Repetition of drugs or drugs
( I.e. if a plant has 2 parts that are useful, it could be listed twice)
Morphological
-Organized Drugs
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, -Unganized Drugs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Organized:
-drugs obtained from the DIRECT parts of the plants CONTAINING cellular
3
tissues
Unorganized:
- plants that are prepared by some intermediate physical process (drying,
extraction with solvents)
- NO cellular tissues
Organized - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-maybe of plant or animal origin
-DIRECT part of plant or animal
-HAVE cellular structure
-Identified by MORPHOLOGICAL (size/shape/parts) characters
Unorganized - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-maybe of plant, animal OR MINERAL origin
-are products of plant or animals
- NO cellular structure
- Identified by ORGANOLEPTIC (using sensory) properties
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Exam Questions and Detailed Answers |
1
Get it 100% Correct Answers
6 classifications - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1) Alphabetical
2) Morphological
3) Taxonomic
4) Pharmacological *** IMPORTANT
5) Chemical
6) Chemotaxonomical
Alphabetical - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Merits:
-Easy and quick to use
-no repetition/ devoid confusion
-easy for system location, tracing and addition of drug entries
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
,DEmerits:
-NO relationship between one drug to another drug
2
Example: can't find the drug within the same family
Morphological
( according to external characters of the plant/animal parts) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Merits:
-helpful to identify/detect adulteration
-convenient for partial study esp when chemical of the drug is not clearly
understood
DEmerits:
- NO correlation of chemical of drug w/ therapeutic actions.
-Repetition of drugs or drugs
( I.e. if a plant has 2 parts that are useful, it could be listed twice)
Morphological
-Organized Drugs
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, -Unganized Drugs - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Organized:
-drugs obtained from the DIRECT parts of the plants CONTAINING cellular
3
tissues
Unorganized:
- plants that are prepared by some intermediate physical process (drying,
extraction with solvents)
- NO cellular tissues
Organized - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-maybe of plant or animal origin
-DIRECT part of plant or animal
-HAVE cellular structure
-Identified by MORPHOLOGICAL (size/shape/parts) characters
Unorganized - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-maybe of plant, animal OR MINERAL origin
-are products of plant or animals
- NO cellular structure
- Identified by ORGANOLEPTIC (using sensory) properties
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
