Department of Pharmacognosy

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 Pharmacognosy lab

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Pharmacognosy 

Pharmacognosy, defined as the study of the physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs or potential drugs or drug substances of natural origin as well as the search for new drugs from natural sources is a specialized area of applied science which deals with natural products that affect the health of humans and animals.This Lab consists of organized as well as unorganized crude drugs.

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Plants

A herbarium is also maintained in the lab for identification of the medicinal plants. We assist regional people for the identification of medicinal plants by providing important morphological features of original medicinal plants located in herbarium museum.

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Garden

A medicinal plant garden in the campus is available to catter the need of pharmacognosy lab. This is the place where the students study the aspects of natural drugs. The lab is equipped for identification, isolation of phytopharmaceuticals, macro, microscopic, physical & chemical characterization of natural drugs. .

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More about laboratory

The laboratory is utilized for morphological and anatomy study of drugs of natural origin. The lab is associated with a museum in which herbal drugs are displayed. 
Various traditionally used plant drugs were screened for the pharmacological activities like anticancer activity, hepato-protective activity, anti-oxidant activity, antiinflammatory activity etc.,
The museum in the department is having sufficient number of crude drugs.
The herbarium of the department is having a collection of over 250 specimen’s approximately