ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE/PHYTOPHARMACOGNOSY
Dr Mansoor Ahmad, former
Chairman and leader for the Pharmacognosy/ Herbal
Medicine/Phytochemistry/Natural Products Chemistry/Naturaceuticals/Alternative
Medicine B. Pharm., M. Pharm., M. Phil., Ph.D. degree programme at the
Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Karachi, has now given up the
leadership to concentrate on building up a research center in herbal medicine
and related Pharmacognosy research at Research Institute of Pharmaceutical
Sciences. We are looking for additional funding in this area and would be
interested to hear from companies that would like to fund basic research work
in herbal medicines as well as potential collaborators from other universities.
We are especially interested to hear from physicians/Hakims (Traditional
Healer) that would like to collaborate with phytochemists/ pharmacognosists.
Please contact me at herbalist53@yahoo.com
if you can help.
At present there
are around 500 undergraduates studying Pharmacognosy/Herbal Medicine, with 5
other members of staff. There is a Pakistan Society of Pharmacognosy, which
organizes the seminars and conferences on Herb, Medicines and therapeutics and
speakers have included Physicians, Herbal Importers, professional herbalists,
plant scientists, pharmaceutical manufacturers and well-known authors in the
phytotherapy field. The university also has strong links with many natural
product, pharmaceutical and herbal manufacturing companies.
Research
Work at Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences includes:
DIABETES,
ARTHRITIS, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND ULCER
ARE NO MORE PROBLEM, GET WELL WITH NEWLY
INVENTED HERBAL RESEARCH PRODUCTS OF
PROF.
DR. MANSOOR AHMAD
Telephone:
009221-499-2473
Local time: 6-8 a.m. & 6-7.30 p.m.