Salient Features:

• Based on New Curriculum of Diploma in Pharmacy, CTEVT.
• Equally useful for Bachelor of Pharmacy students and pharmacy practitioners
• The authors define the knowledge of pharmacognosy related to traditional and modern medicines.
• The book covers various topics such as the history, classification, identification, cultivation, collection, and utilization of natural drugs, as well as the study of adulteration of drugs of natural origin.
• It also includes the evaluation of drugs by their physical, chemical, and organoleptic properties, biological screening of herbal drugs, a pharmacogenetic study of crude drugs, extraction, isolation, and purifi cation with analysis by chromatographic techniques like thin layer chromatography.
• All chapters in the book are in accordance with the syllabus of the Council of Technical Education and Vocational Training.