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The Australian Institute of Pharmacognosy Podcast comes from the Australian Institute of Pharmacognosy, a not-for-profit, independent research institute in Cardwell, Queensland, dedicated to studying drugs of botanical origin.
Pharmacognosy is the study of medicines that come from natural sources, especially plants. The podcast looks at where medicinal plants grow, how they are identified, what compounds they contain, and what published research does and does not show about them.
Episodes are for education and general interest. They are not health advice for any individual.
Australian Institute of Pharmacognosy
Australian Research & Education
In Natura Quaerimus Remedium
The science of medicines from natural sources: how plant drugs are described, identified, tested and standardised.
Individual species, their botany and habitat, and the history of how people have used them.
The compounds plants make, how those compounds are extracted and measured, and what they do in laboratory studies.
Reading the research: study design, what a result can and cannot tell us, and where the gaps are.
Why correct identification matters, and how adulteration and substitution are detected.
How medicinal plants have been recorded over time, and how historical sources are read alongside modern research.
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