01245nas a2200193 4500008004100000245009400041210006900135260001900204300001200223490000600235520063100241653001600872653002300888653002400911653001800935653001700953100001800970856006300988 2010 eng d00aIs the Term Substitution Relevant to Pharmacognosy and/ or Vegetable Crude Drug Industry?0 aTerm Substitution Relevant to Pharmacognosy and or Vegetable Cru cNovember 2010 a323-3240 v23 a
Since each and every drug plant has its own characteristic features, in terms of its botanical characters, chemical composition and therapeutic properties, considering the highly potential drug plants as genuine plant and less potential (allied or non-allied) drug plants as substitutes is unjustifiable. Moreover, the term Substitution is being used for a couple of centuries in a wrong sense in pharmacognostic studies or in the vegetable crude drug industry. Therefore, the term 'Substitution' has to be replaced by the relevant and appropriate term, 'Alternative' or 'Alternative source'.
10aAlternative10aAlternative source10aCrude drug industry10aPharmacognosy10aSubstitution1 aSelvam, A.B.D uhttps://phcogres.com/article/2010/2/5/1041030974-849072333