1.3 Relation of Molecular Pharmacognosy to Other Disciplines
As a new and pioneering branch in pharmacognosy being developed,
molecular pharmacognosy combines pharmacognosy and molecular biology. With its
birth, pharmacognosy develops into its intensive micro-study inevitably.
Pharmacognosy itself is a basic multidisciplinary science for applications, and
molecular biology is based on modern sciences like life medicine, so molecular
pharmacognosy is sure compatible and open cross-disciplinary,
interdisciplinary, and multidisciplinary with a rich connotation and
denotation.
Molecular pharmacognosy is closely related to the following fields of
study: Identification of Traditional Chinese Medicine – With a purpose to
identify the genuine from the fake and the good from the bad and to guarantee
safety and efficacy, molecular pharmacognosy differs from the traditional
identification methods like original plant identi fi cation, character
identification, microscopic identification, and physical and chemical identi fi
cation in using DNA molecular genetic technology to directly analyze the
polymorphism of the genetic materials so as to determine differences in
intrinsic and external performance between different varieties of traditional
Chinese medicine, thus providing identification of traditional Chinese
medicine with a new convenient and accurate method.
Resource Science of Traditional Chinese Medicine – It is a science to
study traditional Chinese medicine in varieties, quantities, geographical
location, temporal and spatial variation, rational exploitation, and scienti fi
c management. Based on the study of distribution of traditional Chinese
medicine resources, resource science of traditional Chinese medicine is aimed
to use cost-effective optimization techniques to make a reasonable arrangement
for traditional Chinese medicine resources to be harvested, processed, and
utilized, so that the society, economy, and ecology can all achieve a
coordinated and balanced program of development and thus provide sufficient
high-quality raw materials to people’s health care and pharmaceutical industries.
Therefore, resource science of traditional Chinese medicine is a comprehensive natural
science or an emerging multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, interdisciplinary
science with a management nature. The concept originated in early 1980s and
worked as an independent discipline in late 1980s. Resource Science of
Traditional Chinese Medicine , the fi rst book used for teaching,
was compiled and published in
May 1993 by Zhou Ronghan, a professor in College of Traditional Chinese
Medicine of China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing. Resource science and
molecular pharmacognosy have a close relation for the latter lays a new
theoretical basis for resource identification, germplasm diversity detection,
searching and expanding new varieties, and new resources of traditional Chinese
medicine, thus promoting the development of resource science of traditional
Chinese medicine.
Pharmaceutical Botany – As a science that deals with study of
pharmaceutical plants by use of morphology, structure, and taxonomic knowledge
and methods in botany, pharmaceutical botany shows a major concern for
systematic study of botanical knowledge to research the identification and
classification of pharmaceutical plants, to investigate their resources, to
sort out the types of Chinese herbal medicine, and to ensure accurate and
effective medication. Molecular pharmacognosy will provide genetic evidence to
pharmaceutical plants in their systemic evolution, the search for new drug
source, and the cultivation of new varieties.
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