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PHAR 331 Natural Drug Production and Evaluation

Credits: 
2
This course will ensure appreciation and understanding of factors which influence cultivation, collection,
preparation and storage of medicinal plants and also the scientific and technological processes of analysis
of natural drugs of plant origin. The course will consider the following:
Crude drug production:
Endogenous and exogenous factors affecting cultivation and preparation of plant drugs; collection,
processing and storage of natural drugs.
Adulteration
: Forms of adulteration, choice of adulterants and their detection in natural drugs.
Evaluation of natural drugs: Methods of evaluation, Separation techniques: and their application in isolation of compounds in plant extracts.