Pharmacognosy is an Applied Branch of science, which deals with the detail study of Crude drugs obtained from Natural Origin like Plants, Animals & Minerals. Well-equipped laboratory admeasuring around 140 sq. mtrs. is totally designed according to the practicals being conducted. Dept. of Pharmacognosy aims at improving the basic concepts like identification & authentification of plants of various families. Microscopical evaluation of crude drugs at First year B.Pharm level, more weightage is given to identification of crude drug by Morphological and Microscopical Analysis at third year B. Pharm. Various projects are assigned to know the advances in Pharmacognosy & Phytochemistry At final year B. Pharm the department focuses on the industrial application the subject. The details of cultivation, collection & processing of the plant has been studied. The extraction of phytoconstituent from the crude drug is extensively studied. The extracted phytoconstituent further processed for purification, identification by means of TLC.
