Pharmacognosy
"Pharmacognosy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The science of drugs prepared from natural-sources including preparations from PLANTS, animals, and other organisms as well as MINERALS and other substances included in MATERIA MEDICA. The therapeutic usage of plants is PHYTOTHERAPY.
| Descriptor ID |
D010598
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H01.158.273.118.598 H01.158.703.060
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