{"id":42618,"date":"2025-07-17T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42618"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:46:07","slug":"word-of-the-day-1050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/07\/17\/word-of-the-day-1050\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pharmacognosy<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Pharmacognosy<\/b>\u00a0is the\u00a0<a title=\"Interdisciplinarity\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interdisciplinarity\">interdisciplinary<\/a>\u00a0scientific study of\u00a0<a title=\"Nature\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nature\">natural<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Drug\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drug\">drugs<\/a>\u00a0and bioactive compounds from plants, animals, and minerals\u2014originally focused on identifying\u00a0<a title=\"Crude drug\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crude_drug\">crude drugs<\/a>\u00a0but now expanded to molecular, chemical, ecological, and medicinal aspects of\u00a0<a title=\"Natural product\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_product\">natural products<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Plants produce a variety of chemical compounds\u2014primary\u00a0<a title=\"Metabolite\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metabolite\">metabolites<\/a>\u00a0essential for all plants and\u00a0<a title=\"Secondary metabolite\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Secondary_metabolite\">secondary metabolites<\/a>\u00a0with specialized roles like defense and pollination attraction\u2014that include classes such as\u00a0<a title=\"Alkaloid\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alkaloid\">alkaloids<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Polyphenol\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polyphenol\">polyphenols<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Glycoside\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glycoside\">glycosides<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Terpene\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Terpene\">terpenes<\/a>, many of which have therapeutic uses in humans and are isolated through\u00a0<a title=\"Fractionation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fractionation\">bioassay-guided fractionation<\/a>.\u00a0<a title=\"Traditional medicine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Traditional_medicine\">Traditional medicine<\/a>\u00a0continue to inform modern pharmacology.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pharmacognosy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/health\/sea-cucumbers-could-be-the-key-to-stopping-cancer-growth-with-a-rare-sugar?oly_enc_id=2026E0663690E4V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sea Cucumbers Could Be the Key to Stopping Cancer Growth With a Rare Sugar Compound<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Jack Knudson, <em><strong>Discover<\/strong><\/em> (paywall):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"sc-4df7a8a0-0 kkhobw\">\u201cThe cells in our body are essentially covered in \u2018forests\u2019 of glycans,\u201d said Vitor Pomin, a professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Mississippi in a statement. \u201cAnd enzymes change the function of this forest \u2013 essentially prunes the leaves of that forest. If we can inhibit that enzyme, theoretically, we are fighting against the spread of cancer.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmacognosy: Pharmacognosy\u00a0is the\u00a0interdisciplinary\u00a0scientific study of\u00a0natural\u00a0drugs\u00a0and bioactive compounds from plants, animals, and minerals\u2014originally focused on identifying\u00a0crude drugs\u00a0but now expanded to molecular, chemical, ecological, and medicinal aspects of\u00a0natural products. Plants produce a variety of chemical compounds\u2014primary\u00a0metabolites\u00a0essential for all plants and\u00a0secondary metabolites\u00a0with specialized roles like defense and pollination attraction\u2014that include classes such as\u00a0alkaloids,\u00a0polyphenols,\u00a0glycosides, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/07\/17\/word-of-the-day-1050\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42619,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42618\/revisions\/42619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}