Pharmacognosy
Lab Detail : Pharmacognosy Laboratory
Pharmacognosy is one of the branch of pharmacy as well as a medical science which is originated from ancient science. Pharmacognosy is broadly covers the scientific and systematic study of structural, physical, chemical and biological characteristics of crude drugs. It also deals with their history, method of cultivation, collection and preparation of crude drugs for the market which is obtained from natural, animal and mineral sources.
Students gain the skill to identify as well as discriminate the types of crude drugs with their adulteration. This course is designed to train the students in physical identification, morphological characterisation and evaluation of commonly used herbal drugs. Students also able to learn anatomical classification characteristics of the herbal drugs and physical & chemical tests to evaluate the crude drugs.
Salient Features of Department
- Histological study of crude drugs with provision of additional facilities.
- Facilities for extraction of crude drugs.
- Facilities for evaluation of crude drugs.
