Natural Products Chemistry and Research

Pharmacognosy

The branch of Science concerned with medicinal drugs obtained from plants or other natural sources Pharmacognosy is in the strict feeling of the word came after investigation of phytochemicals. These are chemicals gotten from plants. In a smaller sense the terms are regularly used to depict the substantial number of auxiliary metabolic mixes found in plants. A significant number of these are known not security against bug assaults and plant ailments. They additionally show various defensive capacities for human purchasers. Phytochemistry can be considered sub-fields of Botany or Chemistry. Exercises can be driven in natural greenery enclosures or in the wild with the guide of Ethnobotany. The uses of the order can be for Pharmacognosy, or the disclosure of new medications, or as a guide for plant physiology contemplates. Phytochemical procedure mostly applies to the quality control of Chinese solution, Ayurvedic medicine(Indian conventional drug) or home grown prescription of different concoction segments, for example, saponins, alkaloids, unpredictable oils, flavonoids and anthraquinones. In the advancement of quick and reproducible expository strategies, the blend of HPLC with diverse locators, for example, diode cluster indicator (DAD), refractive record finder (RID), evaporative light disseminating identifier (ELSD) and mass spectrometric locator (MSD), has been generally created.

For thousands of year’s Pharmacognosy and natural products have played a very important role in health care and prevention of diseases.  It is estimated that about 70% of the supply of herbal raw material for Ayurveda and other homeopathic medicines in India comes from the wild. The global market for botanical and plant-derived drugs was valued at $23.2 billion in 2013 and $24.4 billion in 2014. This total market is expected to reach $25.6 billion in 2015 and nearly $35.4 billion in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6% from 2015 to 2020.