About Course
Scope: The subject involves the fundamentals of Pharmacognosy like scope, classification of
crude drugs, their identification and evaluation, phytochemicals present in them and their
medicinal properties.
Objectives: Upon completion of the course, the student shall be able
1. to know the techniques in the cultivation and production of crude drugs
2. to know the crude drugs, their uses and chemical nature
3. know the evaluation techniques for the herbal drugs
4. to carry out the microscopic and morphological evaluation of crude drugs
Course Content
Unit I
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Introduction to pharmacognosy
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class 2 Sources of Drugs
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class-3 Organized drugs, unorganized drugs
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class 4 Classification of drugs: Alphabetical, morphological, taxonomical,
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class-5 chemical, pharmacological, chemo and sero taxonomical classification of drugs
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class-6 Adulteration
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class -7 Evaluation by organoleptic, microscopic,
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class-8 physical Evaluation
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class-9 chemical and biological methods and properties,Quantitative microscopy of crude drugs including lycopodium spore method,
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class-10 leafconstants, camera lucida and diagrams of microscopic objects to scale with camera lucida.
Unit 2
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