Botany

Medicinal Plant Botanical Garden

A medicinal plant garden has been developed at the college campus. The garden maintains a live collection of over 153 species of different medicinal and aromatic plants. The garden houses a variety of medicinally important herbs, shrubs and trees spread in a well-defined area. The plants grown are useful in the practical classes of Pharmacognosy and Herbal Drug Technology. This well-developed medicinal plant garden provides a strong impetus for herbal drug research and to impart training to the graduate students. It supplies crude raw material and fresh plant specimens essential to carry out herbal drug and natural product-related research by the graduate, postgraduate and doctoral students of Department of Botany. Students of Department of Botany use the botanical garden to collect the herbs for their routine practical work as well as for their research work during their project. Students collect the plant parts based on their project need to prepare extract and isolate the important phytoconstituents with therapeutic importance. The collection of plants is also useful to prepare herbarium specimens by undergraduate students..

Category	Estimated Number
Herbs	1000
Shrubs	800
Trees	320
Medicinal Plant	170

MEDICINAL PLANTS

S.No.	Scientific Name of Plant	Local Name	Family	Uses	Nos
01	Adhatoda vasia	Adusa	Acanthaceae	Espectorent	11
02	Aloe vera	Ghee Kwar	Liliaceae	Fever, Constipation, Piles, Skin, Jaundice, Leprosy	16
03	Andrographis paniculata	Kirayat	Acanthaceae	Fever, Dysentry, Dyspepsia, Stomachic	27
04	Asparagus racemosus	Satawar	Liliaceae	Tonic, Dysentry, Leprosy, T.B., Night Blindness	05
05	Catharanthes roseus	SadaSuhagan	Apocynaceae	Leukemia,Diabetic	22
06	Cymbopogon citrates	Lemon Grass	Poaceae	Bronchitis, Fever, Rheumatism, Leprosy	26
07	Gymnema sylvestre	Gurmar	Asclepiadaceae	Diabetic, Ulcer, Bronchitis, Piles, Snake Bite	11
08	Oscimum sanctum	Tulsi	Lamiaceae	Asthma, Bronchitis, Vomating, Malaria, Ring Worm	14
09	Rauwolfia serpentine	Sarpgandha	Apocynaceae	High Blood Pressure, Sebative, Mental Disorder, Anti-Microbial	12
10	Tinospora cordifolia	Giloey	Menispermaceae	Diabetic, Tonic	02
11	Vitis quadriangularis	Harjod	Vitaceae	Joint and Bone Health	02
12	Withania somnifera	Ashwagandha	Solanaceae	Asthma Bronchitis Arthritis, Rheumatism, Leucoderma	05

Addressing tothe vision and mission of the College the department has been striving toachieve its objectives while providing a holistic learning environment to itsstudents.