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Science - Medical: Pharmaceuticals / pharmacognosy | | Slovenian term or phrase: Droge z eteričnim oljem Čreslovinske droge | | Opis predmeta na farmaciji ( pharmacognosy). |
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| | English translation:drugs with etherical oils/tannin drugs | Explanation:
Term droga in this case refers not the medicine itself , but to the certain part of the herb (e.g. leaves, root, etc) which contain medical substances.
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Pharmacognosia studies drugs, not the medicines (zdravila!) itself. In pharmacognosia we learn to recognize medicinal herbs and to know which substances they contain and which parts of the herb can be used to obtain the substance. Medicines are finished pharmaceutical or galenic products.
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pharmacognosia
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http://books.google.com/books?id=EYYE2g7gNPIC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA...
This book contains some really interesting diagrams which explain tenets of pharmacognosia.
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Here is a very good explanation and confirmation of my idea |
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