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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
The WHO guidelines for the assessment of herbal medicines have provided the impetus to commercial exploitation of indigenous drugs in a global context. Keeping this in new, it is our endeavour to provide the comprehensive text of modern Pharmacognosy covering cultivation technology, quality control of herbal drugs, phytochemistry, Phyto-pharmacy and therapeutic utility of crude drugs. The emphasis is laid on current trends in herbal drugs nutraceuticals ayurvedic pharmacy, marine Pharmacognosy, medicinal plant biotechnology and endangered species of medicinal plants in this book.
We hope that the students of diploma classes in pharmacy and biomedicine, as well as, personnel engaged in pharmaceutical and plant-based industries shall be benefited from our efforts.
Sangeeta Mahaur, RAJ K. PRASAD, PRIYANKA YADAV
The author Mrs Sangeeta Mahaur, M. Pharm. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Medicinal Chemistry), from the Central University of Rajasthan, working as Assistant Professor, at Shambhunath Institute of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Prayagraj, Affiliated to AKTU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. She has qualified for a Central Universities Common Entrance Test; CUCET 2015 (Rank 13) conducted by Govt. of India. She has published various national and international research articles. Also working in various pharmaceutical scientific research and development. She knows the handling & running the modern analytical sophisticated instrument such as UV Spectrophotometer, FT-IR etc. Software of the Molecular Modeling, Drug Designing software such as ChemOffice, Molecular descriptors, Molecular Docking and Correlation analysis. Computational chemistry like Pharmacophore modelling, computational Drug designing, Analogue Structure-based drug design and discovery.
The author Mr Raj K. Prasad (Gold Medalist), M. Pharm. in P’ceutical chemistry, from the school of pharmacy, DAVV, Indore, working as Associate Prof. at Shambhunath Institute of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Prayagraj, Affiliated to AKTU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. He has Qualified for a National level entrance test, GATE 2005 (95.45 percentile) and GATE 2006 (92 percentile) conducted by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India to screen candidates for higher studies. He has published various national and international research articles and textbooks for pharmacy students. Also working in various pharmaceutical scientific research and development.
The author Mrs Priyanka Yadav, M.Pharm in Pharmacology, working as an Assistant professor at Shambhunath Institute of Pharmacy, Prayagraj, Affiliated to AKTU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. She has qualified for a National level entrance exam test, GPAT 2013 (AIR927) and NIPER 2013 (AIR under 1200) conducted by the Government of India to screen candidates for higher studies. She has also work experience in Various Pharmaceutical companies. She has also worked in the clinical trials department for few years.
