Department of Phytopharmaceuticals (Traditional Pharmacy), School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Medicinal Plants Processing Research Centre, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of...

Plants are one of the most important and oldest resources of reparations used in medicine, and pharmacognosy is an interal part of academic education of pharmacists. While this special eld originally consisted of the identification of medicinal plants nd of the knowledge about their constituents, pharmacological ffects and therapeutic efficacy, during the past 20 years a new evelopment with a c...

Swietenia mahagoni Jacq. (native to tropical America), a common avenue tree of India, yields a bark drug, used as antipyretic, bitter tonic, astringent, and occasionally as a substitute for Cinchona. The district characteristics of the species are : blackish brown colour; cracks and fissures with both clean cut and thick recurved edges; irregular wrinkles; splintery and fibrous fractures; bitte...