What is the distinction between Pharmacognosy and Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry?
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Pharmacognosy focuses on natural drug sources (mostly plants) and their medicinal properties, emphasizing the extraction and identification of bioactive molecules. However, Pharmacology is the study of drug effects on the body, and then Pharmaceutical Chemistry is the chemistry of turned into drugs,
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