基き原げん

noun

ingredient (of a crude drug)

Technical term used in pharmacognosy and traditional medicine to refer to the raw material or constituent of a crude drug.

• この生しょう薬やくの基き原げんは甘かん草ぞうである。

  The ingredient of this crude drug is licorice.

• 基き原げん植しょく物ぶつの同どう定ていが重じゅう要ようだ。

  Identification of the source plant is important.