Department of Pharmcognosy

Pharmacognosy is a department related with separation of medicines from plants, animals and minerals. It gives understanding of botany, chemistry, quality control and pharmacology of medicines form natural sources. The students acquire the skill to identify and differentiate between crude drugs and adulteration This department provides facilities for identification, extraction, isolation, and characterization of crude drugs. This department also provides adequate facilities for the formulation, and standardisation of herbal formulation.

Development of herbal drugs is done by using the traditional knowledge, modern science and modern technologies. The department of Pharmacognosy is engaged in imparting knowledge in the various fields of natural medicinal products through theoretical and practical mediums. The department is well equipped with an undergraduate research laboratory, a crude drug museum & herbarium specimens of several plant materials; and modern equipments essential for extraction and isolations of natural medicinal products.

Salient Features of Department

• Facility for Extraction of crude drugs
• Facility for isolation of markers from extracts.
• Facility for Evaluation of Crude drug as per WHO guidelines
• Chromatography