Department of Pharmacognosy

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The department involves in various research activities like :

• Authentication of medicinal plants
• Standardization of herbal drugs
• Isolation and evaluation of therapeutically important phytoconstituents
• Histochemical studies, isolation, formulation and evaluation of volatile components
• Characterization of such isolated compounds

The department maintains :

• Herbal conservation area (1 acre) having 105 species of medicinal plants
• Herbal museum with a display of crude drugs, herbarium & photographs of rare medicinal plants to promote herbal research