The Scope of Pharmacognosy Today & Tomorrow

Pharmacognosy, derived from the Greek words “pharmakon” (drug) and “gnosis” (knowledge), is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources [1]. Healing with medicinal plants is as old as mankind itself. Herbal medicines as the major remedy in ancient system of medicine are employed in medical practices since antiquity. The documents many of which are of great antiquity, unconcealed that plants were used medicinally in India, china, Egypt and Greece long before the beginning of the Common Era