Phytochemistry is said to be the analysis of plant-related chemicals, including the discovery of new medicines extracted from plant sources, but as a branch of pharmacognosy it allows to produce new medications and to learn the plant's active chemical components, as it is absolutely vital to research. New information has been possible for use in connection with plant taxonomy, with the introduction of modern phytochemical approaches. With modern analytical methods it is possible to easily and with certainty classify a significant number of individual compounds from one plant. Such information is highly helpful in providing objective and quantitative confirmatory factor or supplementary proof.

Pharmacognosy is the study of pharmaceutical ingredients or raw medicines derived from natural sources such as plants, microbes and animals. This involves study of the environmental, mechanical, biochemical and physical properties. The human body is believed to find plant-derived pharmaceutical products easier to adopt due to the fact that they occur in nature and are not synthetic. In research, the natural substance may be inactive in its normal physical state, such that it can require a chemical reaction or alteration to transform it into its active form. The active ingredient is often derived directly from the plant, but on other occasions the active ingredient may be generated by synthesis whilst producing a compound which is identical to the plant extract.

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