Pharmacognosy-II(FAR_37B)

Pharmacognosy studies medicines or crude drugs produced from natural sources such as plants, microbes, and animals. It includes analysis of their biological, chemical, biochemical, and physical properties.
Pharmacognosy is used by pharmaceutical companies to screen, characterize, and produce new drugs for the treatment of human disease. Often, naturally occurring drugs cannot be mass-produced, so they must be studied to develop synthetic biosimilars.  By learning pharmacognosy, students will be more focused into discovering new drugs and use them in different diseases.