Pharmacognosy

• Upon completion of this course, I should be able to
• Understand the different aspects of pharmacognosy
• Classify crude drugs
• Know the cultivation, collection and processing of drugs of natural origin
• Understand the plant tissue culture
• Know about primary metabolites
• Pharmacognosy


  Study of drugs derived from natural sources
• Crude drugs


  Unprocessed or partially processed drugs derived from natural sources
• Aspects of pharmacognosy


  • Definition
  • History
  • Scope
  • Recent trends
  • Sources of drugs
  • Crude drugs and its classification
  • Ethnomedical practices in Nepal
  • Bioprospecting
  • Reverse pharmacognosy
• Cultivation and collection of drugs of natural origin
• Factors influencing cultivation of medicinal plants
• Preparation of herbarium and their storage
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
• Protected medicinal plants of Nepal
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