A Practical Book of PHARMACOGNOSY and PHYTOCHEMISTRY-II

This Practical Book “A Practical Book of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry-II” is an attempt to meet the paramount requirements of the students of B. Pharm. V semester/third year, having inclination towards experimental designing and procedural aspects involved in the subject. The book has fulfilled the requirements of Education Regulation and PCI. The book can be recommended as a useful reference book for the students and pharmacy professionals. The book will be of great value to teachers and students requiring a rudimentary guide to experimental work in pharmacognosy. The crude drug utilization, development of herbal drug industries and herbal formulations has raised the aspect of analysis for physicochemical determinations and microscopic with chemical interventions of crude drugs, which is included in the book with examples. The qualitative phytochemcial analysis, chromatographic studies of isolated and extracted fractions and secondary metabolites of herbal drugs will help to understand their nature and characteristics. The book is an attempt to illustrate the experiments on analysis of herbal drugs, their phytochemicals and separation (chromatography, distillation etc.) with identification methods in a simple and easier way.

SALIENT FEATURES OF THE BOOK

• This book comprised of the intermittent and preliminary steps of quality control and identification of herbal drugs by studying the morphological, histological and phytochemical evaluation parameters comprehensibly.
• It is an attempt to cover maximum practical aspects of the subject to provide in-depth information regarding the physicochemical evaluation parameters for both organized and unorganized herbal drugs, e.g., morphology, microscopy, chemical tests with well-labeled and illustrative diagrams.
• The separation of plant secondary metabolites from complex matrices, isolation and characterization techniques involving chromatographic and spectroscopic methods are attainable at laboratory scale.
• The viva-voce questions with answers, analogous to experiments are evocative and pragmatic making the book more utile. 
• This book is an attempt to simplify the experiments of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry-II in pellucid manner. In a nutshell, it gives relevant and succinct information required during experimentation, eliminating the need to refer too many texts for experiment.