Pharmacognosy

DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOGNOSY

Department of Pharmacognosy is engaged in the study of the drugs from natural products i.e plant, animals, marine and other life origins. Pharmacognosy remains as a promising and ever blooming modern science with its multiple disciplines including ethnobiology, ethnomedicine, phytochemistry and phytomedicine. The subject has played a diverse role in the discovery, characterization, production and standardisation of crude drugs.

Overview

Pharmacognosy is a discipline related with separation of medicines from plants, animals and minerals. Pharmacognosy is a science which is one of the basic disciplines of pharmacy and it researches drugs derived from natural sources. The studies in this field usually focus on traditional uses of plants, medicines derived from plants, various types of organisms (bacteria, fungi ect.) and recently marine organisms. The main topics of the pharmacognostical studies are natural product drug discovery, biological activities of the substances obtained from natural sources, herb-drug interactions and phytotherapy. It can be said that pharmacognosy is closely related to botany, plant chemistry, microbiology and pharmacology.

Research Areas:

• Screening and evaluation of natural products and traditional medicine
• Development of value added modern drug delivery system of natural products
• Quality control and standardization of natural products formulation
• High throughput screening for the lead finding in natural products
• Scientific validation of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homeopathy traditional medicine
• Phytochemical and phytopharmacological studies for lead finding in natural products from the great ancient treatise of India.
• Herbal pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics studies.

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