M.Pharma Pharmacognosy at NBU Offline Course

Master of Pharmacy (M.Pharm) is a postgraduate academic degree which is granted for a course or program in the field of Pharmaceutical Technology. Pharmaceutics is the discipline of pharmacy that deals with all facets of the process of turning a new chemical entity (NCE) into a medication able to be safely and effectively used by patients in the community. Pharmaceutics is the science of dosage form design. There are many chemicals with known pharmacological properties but a raw chemical is of no use to a patient.

Pharmacognosy is an important discipline in the Pharmacy curriculum and deals with the study of crude drugs from natural sources. The subject has played a diverse role in the discovery, characterization, production and standardisation of crude drugs. In the recent past, the world has witnessed a tremendous renewal of interest in natural products in the area of drug discovery, cosmeceuticals and neutraceuticals. Pharmacognosy now encompasses many fields like botany, ethnobotany, marine biology, microbiology, alternative medicines, chemistry, pharmacology, phytochemistry, pharmaceutics, clinical pharmacy and molecular biology and has a multidisciplinary approach.