Advanced Pharmacognosy (Theory)
About This Book
This comprehensive textbook has been specially designed to meet the requirements of sixth-semester B.Pharm students studying under the new PCI syllabus 2026 (NEP 2020). It follows the BP601T syllabus unit by unit while telling one continuous story: how a documented traditional use becomes a validated, mechanistically understood, and legally protected modern medicine.
The book begins with reverse pharmacology and the traditional-knowledge record, the point at which a documented use becomes a research hypothesis. It proceeds through the analytical platforms that characterise a herbal drug as a metabolome, the computational and genomic methods that prioritise and explain its constituents, and the medicinal chemistry that turns an active constituent into an optimised lead. It ends with the preclinical, clinical, and regulatory evaluation that a lead must pass, and with the intellectual-property framework that protects both the innovation and the traditional knowledge it draws upon.
Keywords
How to Cite
Chauhan, V., Pandit, J., Kumar, M., & Ambekar, A. A. (2026). Advanced Pharmacognosy (Theory) (1st ed.). WiseLeaf Scientific Ventures. ISBN: 978-81-903393-9-1
Paid Access — Preview the first 10 pages for free. Full book will be available for purchase through our partner platforms.