Pharmacognosy

Pharmacognosy is the objective study of crude drugs from materialsources, which are treated scientifically. It is the study of the physical, chemical and structural characters and use of crude drugs. This bookprovides detailed information on plants used as drugs, in simplelanguage, well-supported by suitable illustrations, and discusses theclassification, preparation and storage of crude drugs, phytoconstituents of therapeutic value with suitable examples, drug adulteration and method of evaluatio