Concise Encyclopedia of Herbal Drugs(Quick memorising of the pharmacognostic features)

Professor (Dr.) Jyotirmaya Sahoo · Professor (Dr.) P. Sudhir Kumar · Professor (Dr.) Erwin M. Faller · Mr. Asutosha Parida · Mr. Janmejaya Sahoo

JEC PUBLICATION

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Pharmacognosy" is a Greek word, derived from pharmakon means drug, and gnosis means knowledge. It is the study of the crude drugs produced from natural sources such as plants, animals and minerals including their morphological, chemical, and biological properties as well as history, cultivation, collection, extraction, isolation, bioassay, and their standardization for biological, chemical, biochemical, and physical properties. The objective of the study of “pharmacognosy” is for safe use of herbal drugs including their side effects, toxicity, drug interaction, etc thereby increasing effectiveness in modern medicine. Like any other scientific area, since the introduction of Pharmacognosy some 200 years ago, it has evolved over the years, and now Pharmacognosy can be defined as the science of biogenic or naturally derived drugs, pharmaceuticals and poisons. Various modern analytical techniques are used to authenticate and standardization of the crude drugs. De materia medica is a pharmacopoeia of medicinal plants written by Dioscorides between 50 and 70 CE in which about 600 plants are placed. Keeping the requirements of the curriculum for the students of Bachelor of Pharmacy and Diploma in Pharmacy under Pharmacy Council of India in view, the authors of Concise Encyclopedia of Herbal Drugs have put a small effort to bring 134 herbal drugs with their synonym, biological name, family, source, uses, chemical constituents, chemical identification tests, adulterant, picture of the drug and the chemical structure of one of the major constituents with this book. Pictures are collected from search engine google. The chemical structures of the phyto constituents are drawn using software Chemdraw version 12.0. As the monograph of the herbal drugs too difficult to memorize so the authors concise the monograph and along with provided a large coloured picture of the drug to make it attractive for the students to read and memorize. It would be grateful to the readers if they draw the attention to the deficiencies and errors that might have remained. We express our sincere gratitude to all who have extended their cooperation and help in completion of this book. Hope, this book would be well accepted by the students and teacher community.

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Ile has more than az years of Academic, Research and Industry Experience. Presently working as Dean at School of Pharmacy, ARKA JAIN University, Jharkhand. He has more than 50 research and review publications to his credit in journals of national international repute. Dr. Sahoo is the life member of APTI, IHPA, IPA, Inpharm Association and OCS. He has won the Best Research award from Indian Drugs in 2026. His area of interest is Exploration of Synthetic and Non-synthetic antimicrobials and their in vitro investigation.

He is currently working as Professor at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Siksha Anusandhan (Deemed to be University). Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. His area of interest is new drug development and their pharmacological investigation. He has more than 80 research and review publications to his credit in national international journals of repute. Ile has credited with 4 projects funded from ICMR and DIIR. Under his successful supervision 6 research scholars awarded with PhD degrees. Dr Kumar also received "Gandhian Young Technalogical Innovation (GYIT) award in 2019 and Hest Research Paper Award from Indian Drugs in 2016. He has 24 years of Academic Experience.

He is currently working as the Director of Pharmacy Department, San Pedro College. Philippines. Dr. Erwin is a distinguished fellow of the Royal Institute of Pharmacist, Singapore. He earned his PhD in Educational Leadership (specializing in Pharmacy Education) at University of the Immaculate Conception, Philippines, and former president of the Philippine Pharmacist Association-Davao City Chapter. He was the founder of Global Heath Pharmacy Certificare Course in Asia. He recently awarded as the Turnitin Global Innovation Award 2017 and MSU Best Academic Excellent Awardee for 2 consecutive years (2016 and 2017). He is also the recipient of the Bagong Bayani (National Hero) Award for Outstanding Employce 2018 given by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) for his exemplary contribution in the national and international community. He has published numerous scientific journals and books.

He is currently working with School of Pharmacy. ARKA JAIN University, Jharkhand. India. He keeps interest in research and academics. He has 5 years of academic and hospital experience. He has received Best Young Achievers Award in 2022 from InSc International Publishers and also received Best Pharmacist Award from IPES in 2020.

Ile is M. Sc. in Entomology from Institute of Agricultural Sciences. Siksha 'O' Anusandhan Deemed to be University. Bhubaneswar, Odisha keeps interest in plant taxonomy.

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