A Practical Hand Book Of Pharmacognosy And Phytochemistry Ii

This book entitled ‘Practical Hand Book of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry - II’ is aimed to provide knowledge of Crude drugs its Morphology, Histology, Powder characteristics, Extraction and Detection. The book covers the exercise involving Isolation and Detection of active principles. It deals with the Separation of sugars by Paper chromatography, Thin Layer Chromatography of herbal extract Distillation of volatile oils, and detection of phytoconstituents by Thin Layer Chromatography. The book also focuses on the Analysis of crude drugs by chemical tests. As Herbal drugs are becoming popular worldwide this book will be very crucial in explaining different basic concepts to students and users.