pharmacognosticadj.

1853 J. W. Metcalf Homoeopathic Provings 283 While we thus openly, in the face of friends and foes, acknowledge our pharmacognostic deficiencies, we desire in the most earnest manner to deprecate the supposition that we undervalue or mistrust the provings of Hahnemann.

1921 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 41 178 The author has made an inquiry into the botanical and pharmacognostic characteristics of the various ingredients of Biblical incense.

1945 Q. Rev. Biol. 20 189/1 This treatise includes chemical, pharmaceutical, and pharmacognostic descriptions of many vegetable drugs.

1974 Nature 13 Sept. 169/1 While familiarising himself with the natural history of the islands, Linnaeus was instructed particularly to look for plants..with pharmacognostic value.

1999 Social Stud. Sci. 29 339 Taking Guan Guangdi's pharmacognostic study as an example, I will demonstrate how Dr Cheng Peizhen's successful clinical experiment crucially shaped the course of changshan research.