QUALITY CONTROL OF CRUDE DRUGS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacognosists and quality control professionals! Quality control of crude drugs is one of the most critical aspects of pharmacognosy. It ensures that the natural products used as medicines are…
BRIEF OUTLINE OF OCCURRENCE, DISTRIBUTION, ISOLATION, IDENTIFICATION TESTS, THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY AND PHARMACEUTICAL APPLICATIONS OF ALKALOIDS, TERPENOIDS, GLYCOSIDES, VOLATILE OILS, TANNINS AND RESINS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacognosists and pharmaceutical scientists! Secondary metabolites are synthesised from primary metabolites such…
BIOLOGICAL SOURCE, CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS AND THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY OF CRUDE DRUGS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacognosists and pharmaceutical scientists! The study of crude drugs from natural sources is one of the most fascinating and essential areas of pharmacognosy. Understanding…
PLANT FIBRES USED AS SURGICAL DRESSINGS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! Surgical dressings are substances that are applied to wounds to protect and promote healing. They perform a number of purposes for the injured area.…
BASIC PRINCIPLES INVOLVED IN THE TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS OF MEDICINE: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and healthcare professionals! Many civilisations in different parts of the world were developed and they perished; however, the medicine systems developed by them became…
ROLE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS IN NATIONAL ECONOMY AND THEIR EXPORT POTENTIAL: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists! Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) are botanical crude materials used for therapeutic and aromatic purposes in cosmetics,…
HERBS AS HEALTH FOOD: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and health enthusiasts! The concept of “food as medicine” is not new—it dates back to ancient times when Hippocrates famously said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be…
INTRODUCTION TO HERBAL FORMULATIONS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and herbal formulation scientists! Herbal formulations are dosage forms that consist of one or more herbs or processed herbs in specified quantities to provide specific nutritional and cosmetic benefits…
HERBAL COSMETICS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacists and cosmetic scientists! Herbal cosmetics are products formulated using various permissible cosmetic ingredients to form a base in which one or more herbal ingredients are added to provide the defined cosmetic…
PHYTOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATION OF DRUGS: A TEACHER’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE Welcome, future pharmacognosists and phytochemists! Phytochemistry involves the study of chemicals (mainly the secondary metabolites) the plants produce as a measure to protect themselves from insects, pests, pathogens, herbivores, UV exposure, and…