Department Of
Pharmacognosy
The Department of Pharmacognosy provides necessary facilities for the development herbal products, herbal product standardization and characterization.
Pharmacognosy Lab I
The lab equipment includes camera lucida, dissection microscope, moisture balance, hot-air oven, analytical balance, muffle furnace, chromatography cabinet, heating mental, microscope compound, heating plate and water bath. Pharmacognosy is the study of drugs obtained from plant kingdom and other natural sources. The study involves the identification, extraction, isolation and characterization of plant constitutes and study of their pharmacological effects. Plant kingdom is the rich source of valuable drugs. Various useful drugs like quinine (antimalarial), reserpine (tranquilizer), have been derived from plant sources. Herbal garden contain more than 150 medicinal plants labelled with their uses and genus details.