WHO estimated that above 80% of World populationsimply rely on Herbal Medicine. A series of modern drugs have origins

from Medicinal plants.

Safety, efficacy and cost effectiveness are the key points that attract both physician and patients towards herbal medicine.

Scientists todays are paying key attention towards herbal medicine and looking for new therapeutic regimens and molecules

for the treatment of cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and many other diseases.

In Department of Pharmacognosy, we train the Pharm-D students covering various techniques used in the Pharmacognosy

and Natural Product Research. We not only involve the undergraduate students in practical lab (For instance Rotary evaporators,

TLC, Paper chromatography, Column Chromatography, Chemical Identification tests etc) but also

provide an excess to sophisticated instruments within University for instance UV, HPLC, GCMS, NMR etc to develop interest in