The Pharmacognosy Department engages in the identification, physicochemical characterization, cultivation, extraction, preparation, quality control, and biological assessment of drugs. The isolation of bioactive chemicals can involve the use of plant leaves, flowers, roots, or animal and plant extracts.
Facilities available in the labs
Instruments & Apparatus
- Compound Microscopes
- Dissecting Microscopes
- Projection Microscope
- Electronic Digital balance
- Autoclave
- Hot air oven
- Refrigerator
- Zone reader
- Digital pH Meter
- Colorimeter
- Sonicator
- Fermenter
- Permanent slide
- Various crude drugs
- Camera lucida
- Muffle furnace
- Moisture balance
- Heating Mantles
- Micro Centrifuge
- Hot plates
- Microtome rotary
- Mixer grinder
- UV Cabinet
- Water Distillation unit
- Cutter Mill (Bark and seed grinder)
- Electrophoresis
- Sterility testing unit
