The textbook is compiled in accordance with the GEF VO specialty 33. 05. 01 Pharmacy and is designed to prepare students for intermediate and final certification in the discipline "Pharmacognosis" . Methodical recommendations contain a list of control questions for the exam, a brief description of the main groups of biologically active substances, exemplary tests and situational problems for self-training. The annexes contain the formulas of biologically active substances, the list of medicinal plant raw materials, medicinal plants included in the State Pharmacopoeia of the Russian Federation of the 14th edition, medicinal fees and medicines, which include medicinal plant raw materials . The manual can be used for independent work of students of specialty 31. 05. 01 Treatment, 31. 05. 02 Pediatrics, as well as of interest to all interested in medicinal plants.