Pharmacognosy

Extrasynthese and the various uses of Pharmacognosy

Pharmacognosy is the study of the drugs and medicines developed from natural origins, that is from plants, herbs, and minerals. Pharmacognosy attempts to provide detailed information on the biological, chemical, biochemical and physical properties of herbal medicines. Its scope of intervention includes the history, cultivation, preparation, evaluation, and conservation of drugs and economic substances affecting the health of man and other animals.

Though considered by many scientists as interdisciplinary (since affecting several fields: marine biology, microbiology, phytochemistry, pharmacology, etc.), pharmacognosy is essentially related to pharmaceutical studies.

Today, pharmacognosy is of a consummate utility for chemical substances industrialists. Extrasynthese uses the recent confirmed reports of pharmacognosy in the development of its substances. Pharmacognosy allows us also to enhance our knowledge about plants, their properties, and the medicinal use of them.

Thanks to pharmacognosy, Extrasynthese is currently the leading producer of extracted chemical substances in the world. The quality of our products helped foster our reputation all over the world.