English 4, Post 3, 'Themed Free Post - Carrer Related

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Hi there!

Although it is a subject that I have not studied formally and in depth as I would like, I am very interested in pharmacognosy and phytotherapy, both are pharmaceutical sciences based on the use of active principles of natural origin, for example plant, microbial and animal. Specifically phytotherapy is a therapeutic area that specializes in the use of products of plant origin to prevent and cure symptoms of some diseases.

Currently around thirty percent of drugs are direct or indirect derivatives of plants, whose active principles are derived from various medicinal plants.

This science is of great importance since it can be used as a precursor to develop drugs of semi-synthetic origin, modifying the basic molecular structure of the active principle to obtain a much more effective and stable component, as well as being able to counteract many side effects and disadvantages.

Among the most important medicines of plant origin and used today are aspirin and morphine, initially aspirin was synthesized from acetylsalicylic acid obtained from the white willow, morphine is synthesized from the opium plant. Therefore, there are many more examples of drugs that have a plant origin.


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