Master Degree in Medicinal Plants Sciences

The Gujarat Ayurved University offers number of courses one of the course is Master Degree in Medicinal Plants Sciences

Course Contents (Brief outlines): The course has been divided into 3 parts.
1. Medico-Botanical Sciences,
2. Agricultural Sciences,
3. Pharmaceutical Sciences, Including material, Personnel and resources management.

Medico-Botanical Sciences

1. Introduction to medicinal plants.
2. Morphological Studies of the plants.
3. Areas of occurrence and ecological studies.
4. Important identifying characters.
5. Useful parts and their specific characters, properties and uses. Season & method of collection of different parts viz. root, stem, bark, leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds and exudates.

Agricultural Sciences

1. Area, Land and Topography
2. Soil Conditions
3. Preparation of the land for cultivation
4. Nursery
5. Sowing, Germination and Transplanting
6. Irrigation
7. Use of fertilizers and manures
8. Care from fungi, pests, etc.
9. Weeding and harvesting

Pharmaceutical Sciences

1. Macro/Microscopic, Chemical, Pharmacognostical and Pharmacological studies of the crude drugs (Both modern & Ayurvedic aspects)
2. Material, personnel and recourses management aspects related to medicinal plant resources development