Sunday, 6 March 2016

Always think ... is it Medical/ Medicinal or Pharmaceutical/Pharmacy/Pharmacognosy ?

I am strictly adamantly against about usage of terms like "medicinal" or ''medical'' in any Pharmacy sector, Creates unneccessary confusion : 
eg Medical research when actually its a pharmaceutical research
eg Medicinal Chemistry when actually its a Pharmaceutical Chemistry
eg Medical Store when actually its a Pharmacy
eg Medical Representative when actually its a Pharmacy Representative
eg Medical mnemonics when actually it is Pharmacy mnemonics(clinicaly oriented pharma mnemonics are different from industry oriented pharma mnemonics)

Medicinal means (of a substance or plant) having healing properties.
Then what is Pharmacognosy/Herbal/

'Medical examination' is when you get yourself checked out by a doctor to see if your are healthy. You could look up the two words in the dictionary, but the main thing is that plants are not primarily medical, but they have healing properties like medicines...that is the meaning of "medicinal".