Pharmacognosie

Japanese: Pharmakognosie
Pharmacognosie


[Pharmacognosy]
The study of crude drugs is called pharmacognosy. The term pharmacognosy was coined in 1880 when Ooi Gendō translated the German word Pharmakognosie as pharmacognosy. There was the ancient word kigusuri, and the word honzogaku for the study of Japanese and Chinese medicine, but pharmacognosy was a newly created word to mean that it is treated as a field of modern science.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Pharmakognosie" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[生薬学]
 生薬を研究する学問を生薬学という。生薬という言葉は1880年大井玄洞がドイツ語のPharmakognosieに対して〈生薬学〉の訳語をあてたことに始まる。古来〈きぐすり〉という言葉があり,和漢薬の研究に対しては〈本草学〉という語があったが,近代科学の1分野として取り扱うという意味から新しく造られた言葉である。…

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