Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
Bioimpacts. 2014;4(3):109-10. doi: 10.15171/bi.2014.001. Epub 2014 Sep 22.
Pharmacognosy deals with the natural drugs obtained from organisms such as most plants, microbes, and animals. Up to date, many important drugs including morphine, atropine, galanthamine, etc. have originated from natural sources which continue to be good model molecules in drug discovery. Traditional medicine is also a part of pharmacognosy and most of the third world countries still depend on the use of herbal medicines. Consequently, pharmacognosy always keeps its popularity in pharmaceutical sciences and plays a critical role in drug discovery.
生药学研究的是从生物体（如大多数植物、微生物和动物）中获得的天然药物。迄今为止，许多重要的药物，包括吗啡、阿托品、加兰他敏等，都源自天然来源，这些天然来源仍然是药物发现的良好模型分子。传统医学也是生药学的一部分，大多数第三世界国家仍然依赖草药的使用。因此，生药学在药学科学中一直保持着其受欢迎程度，并在药物发现中发挥着关键作用。
