Pharmacognosy

• Metformin is isolated from?

  Galaga officinales, Fabaceae
• Common name of Metformin?

  Goat's Rue/French Lilac
• It is isolated from the Opium air-dried milky exudate of the unripe capsule of _________?

  Morphine, Papaver Somniferum
• Porcine Insulin is produced from?

  Pig or hog, Sus serofa Suidae
• Bovine insulin is produced from?

  Cow, Bos taurus bovidae
• Human Insulin produced by?

  Recombinant DNA technology
• What is the first company to produce Human Insulin?

  Eli Lily
• Microbe being used to produce Human Insulin?

  E.coli
• The first statin to be discovered was?

  Mevastatin
• 2 fungi constituents of Mevastatin?

  P. citrinum, P. brevicompactum
• What is the first marketed Statin?

  Lovastatin
• What is the first antibacterial antibiotic to be discovered? Who is the discoverer?

  Penicillin, Alexander Fleming
• 2 species source of Penicillin?

  P. notatum, P.chrysogenum
• Who successfully isolated the species of Penicillin? and using what technique?

  Florey and Chain, Freeze drying
• The ones who made clay models of the human body and is aware of the medicinal effects of a number of plants.

  Babylonians
• Who discovered a document also known as Paper scroll?

  Georg Ebers
• Who wrote the paper scroll?

  Egyptians
• An oleo-gum-resins used by the Egyptians to mask the odor of the dead body (embalming)

  Myrrh
• What is the medicinal use of Myrrh?

  Astringent
• Name of the book written by Pedanios Dioscorides.


  De Materia Medica Libri Quinque (The Medicinal Material in 5 volumes)
• 5 notable natural substances written in De Materia Medica.

  Aloe, Balledona, Colchicum, Ergot, Opium
• Constituent of Belladonna and an antidote for organophosphate insecticide poisoning.

  Atropine
• Belladonna is known as


  Beautiful Lady
• 2 Alkaloids of Ergot

  Ergotamine, Ergonovine
• Paracelsus considered this as the stone of immortality.

  Opium
• Father of Pharmaceutical compounding and introduced the methods of preparing formulas containing plant and animal.

  Cladius Galen
• Cold cream is also known as

  Galens cerate
• Cold cream is composed of

  Lanolin, Rose water
• Who coined the term pharmacognosy from Pharmakon and Gnosis and used it in his dissertation entitled Analetica Pharmacognostica in 1815.


  C.A. Seydler
• First to use the term Pharmacognosy, wrote Lehrbuch De materia medica.


  J.A. Schmidt
• Who described the most comprehensive idea of the scope of Pharmacognosy?

  F.A. Fluckiger
• Pharmacognosy is an applied science that deals with the constituents ____,______, and _______features of natural drugs and their constituents.

  Biological, Economical, Biochemical
• Who is the father of modern taxonomy and proposed the binomial system?

  Carolus Linnaeus
• Countries that exported Acacia gum are?

  Sudan, Senegal
• These are planted in wet lands.

  Senna
• A constituent responsible for the therapeutic effects.

  Active constituent
• A constituent mainly used as excipients.

  Inert constituent
• What are the animals or vegetable drugs that consist of natural substances that have undergone only the processes of collection and drying

  Crude drugs
• Principles separated from crude drugs and are also known ascrude derivatives


  crude extractives
• Digoxin is considered as ______ Activeand has an effect on our body.

  Pharmacologically