Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry

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Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry

Pharmacognosy is the process of physical and chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs, potential drugs or drug substances of natural sources used for the origin of new drugs. The procedure includes modern isolation techniques and pharmacological testing procedures to prepare purified substances, cultivation and propagation by tissues culture. Phytochemistry is the study of phytochemicals, where the chemicals are obtained from plants. Several metabolic mixes are found in plants. 

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