Definition

Noun: 1. Medicinal Material / Crude Drug: A natural substance of plant, animal, mineral, or microbial origin, used in its raw or simply processed form as the starting material for preparing finished medicines and pharmaceutical formulations. 2. Herbal Medicine / Botanical Drug Substance: Often refers specifically to plant-based materials (herbs, roots, bark, seeds, flowers) used for therapeutic purposes.

Usage Examples

• (Ginger, turmeric, and licorice are common medicinal materials in traditional medicine.)
• (This research institute specializes in conserving rare sources of crude drugs.)
• (The pharmaceutical company imports botanical drug substances from many countries to manufacture medicine.)

Advanced Usage

• "Dược liệu học": Pharmacognosy (the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources).
  • Dược liệu học là môn học quan trọng trong ngành dược. (Pharmacognosy is an important subject in the field of pharmacy.)
• "Trồng cây dược liệu": To cultivate medicinal plants.
  • Vùng núi này thích hợp cho việc trồng cây dược liệu. (This mountainous area is suitable for cultivating medicinal plants.)

Variants and Related Words

• Thảo dược (n): Herbal medicine; often used interchangeably with but may emphasize plant-based remedies.
• Nguyên liệu làm thuốc (n): Raw material for making medicine; a more general descriptive phrase.
• Thuốc nam (n): Southern medicine (Vietnamese traditional medicine using local herbs); a specific category of .

Synonyms

• Medicinal herb
• Crude drug
• Botanical material (when plant-based)
• Simple (in pharmaceutical contexts, e.g., "a plant simple")

Related Terms

• Dược chất / Hoạt chất (n): Active pharmaceutical ingredient (API); the purified, active compound often extracted from the .
• Thuốc thành phẩm (n): Finished drug product; the final, formulated medicine prepared from .

noun

1. Drug ; Medicine