Pharma, Pharmaceutics and Biotechnology Conference

Pharmacognosy is one of the most crucial areas of pharmaceutical sciences, referring to the study of medicinal plants and natural products.

The session would provide for an exposure to pharmacognosy in depth, as this would go further to discuss its importance in drug discovery, characterization of bioactive compounds, and in deriving drugs from traditional medicine for modern health care.

From the heart of pharmacognosy, then, springs the search for those plants that have been an integral part of traditional drugs for thousands of years. Plants, which are more likely to contain bioactive compounds useful in the treatment of a large number of diseases.

The entire session will deal with the identification and classification of medicinal plants and their chemical constituents with pharmacological properties that make them valuable in healthcare.

Photochemistry validation of medicinal plants is important for both efficacy and safety; hence, the most important techniques to be used in pharmacognosy would involve chromatographic methods like HPLC and GC, and spectroscopic techniques like NMR and mass spectrometry for bioactive compound isolation and characterization.

All participants would be enlightened about popular medicinal plants and their active ingredients, such as alkaloids, flavonoids, and terpenes, and how all these compounds have contributed to the therapeutic effect of the medicine. Another significant contribution of pharmacognosy is to drug discovery as so much of today's drugs are developed from natural products.

This session discuses case studies on drugs developed based on compounds from plants. For instance, the pacific yew tree has paclitaxel, or Taxol, which is used in the treatment of cancer. In this session, the importance of ethno pharmacology also comes up-the use of plants in medicine in various cultures.

The traditional application of medicinal plants as well as their cultural importance can guide researchers in developing new sources of therapy as well as in designing new drugs. The even more important issues involved in standardizing herbal drugs and quality control in herbal medicine will also be discussed. With the rising popularity of natural products, there is also the responsibility to scientifically validate their safety and efficacy in detail.

By incorporating biotechnology and genomics in gaining insights through pharmacognosy on medicinal species, the seminar shall present the trends found in researches from the involvement of participants.

This way, healthcare professionals will be able to respect the natural riches with all their significance for the integration and adjunctive medical treatments.

A session on pharmacognosy will also be presented, and it will be elaborated on the importance that this field assumes in the development of new drugs as well as in the promotion of holistic health.

Participants will be endowed with knowledge for how research on medicinal plants can add to pharmaceutical sciences and improve patient care.