Pharmacognosy

Pharmacognosy

Pharmacognosy is the study of medicinal drugs derived from plants or other natural sources. It is also defined as the study of crude drugs.It can be said that pharmacognosy is closely related to botany, plant chemistry, microbiology and pharmacology. The students are given sufficient knowledge to be able to describe morphology and histology of different parts of plant and identify drugs in the whole state. Today pharmacognosy can be divided to three main field:

• Ethnopharmacognosy
• Phytotherapy
• Phytochemistry