The Department of Pharmacognosy is engaged in imparting basic and advanced aspects of different natural sources as pharmaceutical raw materials, traditional medicines, phytochemical screening, and scope of Indian medicinal plants in the allied sciences like food, nutraceuticals, and cosmetics. The department deals with the theoretical as well as practical knowledge of undergraduate courses related to pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, analytical pharmacognosy, the chemistry of natural products, herbal drug technology, and nutraceuticals.

The identification, authentication, and standardization of medicinal plants require high-resolution microscopes like projecting microscope, digital microscope, and basic extraction facilities. The Pharmacognosy laboratories are well equipped for offering infrastructure support for complete sample preparation, analysis, and characterization of phytoconstituents. The department also have a well-developed medicinal plant garden with more than 100 plants extending the scope to carry out research on medicinal plants. Instruments and other facilities available in the department are TLC plates and chambers, Soxhlet Apparatus, Extraction and Distillation Unit, Water Bath, Magnetic Stirrers etc.