Applications of snowdrop medicinal plant material in homeopathic pharmacy: a brief historical background and a systematic review of homeopathic medicines standardization
Abstract
Currently, relevant studies are related to the development of private pharmacopeia articles with the requirements for medicinal plant raw materials and homeopathic mother tincture used in homeopathic practice. The article presents a brief overview of the history of the use of snowdrop in the offi cial allopathic and homeopathic medicine. Some aspects of standardization of medicinal plants and tinctures of homoeopathic matrix of Voronov snowdrop (Galanthus woronowii Losinsk) and Galanthus nivalis.
About the Authors
D. O. Bokov
I.M. Sechenov First MSMU
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dmitry Olegovich Bokov, post-graduate of the chair of pharmacognosy
45 Nakhimovsky ave., Moscow, 117418
Tel.: 8 (499) 128–57–66
I. A. Samylina
I.M. Sechenov First MSMU
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor of pharmacy, corresp. member of RAS, prof., head of the chair of pharmacognosy
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