Annexure-B
A two day Training Workshop cum field trip entitled “Pharmacognostical Awareness cum Field trip on Cultivation of Unani Medicinal Plants” was organized by DRS-I, Department of Ilmul Advia, Faculty of Unani Medicine, Aligarh Muslim University on 20-21 April, 2013. About 35 students from Under graduate (BUMS) and Post graduates (MD Unani) as well as some Research Fellows of Unani Medicine participated in this Training Programme. In this two day event, first day was kept for the lectures followed by the Practical Demonstration in Pharmacognosy Lab; the day was further made very informative with a trip on the same day to the University Botanical Garden on Qila (Aligarh fort). Second day i.e 21 April was a Field trip to Ghabana Tehsil Village Parai 20 Km from Aligarh for a demonstration of cultivation practices of some Unani medicinal plants & Crop on the field as Satavar (Asparagus racemosus L.), Kasni (Cichorium intybus L.) etc. and the participants also get acquainted with the information of specific techniques of post harvesting practice of Satavar.
The training workshop started at 8:30 a.m on 20 April, 2013 by Coordinator DRS-I Programme Dr. Abdul Latif, he explained about the objectivies of organizing such Workshop, is to impart knowledge to Unani scholars “to make them attentive of the basic principles of Pharmacognosy, to help them identifying a unani drug, to identify about any pathogen attack on plants, to make them aware of GACP, GMP, GCP, GAP; awareness of WHO Guidelines and utilization of these guidelines in future”. The lectures were given by the well known Speakers of the respective field. First lecture was given by Prof. Mansoor Ahmad Siddiqui (Department of Botany, Faculty of Life Science, AMU, Aligarh) who gave a valuable scientific deliberation entitled “Symptoms of Fungal pathogens on Some Medicinal plants”, he put forward about the useful information for identification of any pathogenic attack on medicinal plants. It was followed by lecture of Dr. V. K. Singh (Ex. Deputy Director (Botany), CCRUM, Dept. of AYUSH, New Delhi) entitled “Awareness, Training and Cultivation of medicinal crops in Western Uttar Pradesh- A prerequisite for quality assurance of ISM drugs”. After that there was another very informative lecture on “Pharmacognostical & Special Techniques of Cultivation of Medicinal Plants” by Prof. S. H. Afaq (Department of Ilmul Advia, AMU, Aligarh) and the lectures ended by another very informative talk on “Awareness of WHO Guidelines for Quality assurance of Unani Drugs” by Dr. Abdul Latif (Co-ordinator, DRS-I, Department of Ilmul Advia, AMU, Aligarh) which imparted a valuable information on Quality Assurance & Quality Control of Herbal drugs, WHO Guidelines for Good Agriculture Cultivation Practices, Good Manufacturing Practices, etc. It was followed by a practical demonstration of identifying fungal pathogenic organism that infects plant material assisted by Miss. Kavita Parihar and Miss. Bushra Rehman Ph. D Scholars of Botany Department. Workshop material containing Printed material of the valuable information regarding Cultivation Practices of Medicinal plants, CD with live demonstration of harvesting practices. was also provided to the participants.
The Programme ended with the acknowledgement and vote of thanks to the Guest speakers and with the appreciating words by the Co-ordinator, DRS-I; Dr. Abdul Latif for the participants of the Workshop ‘to ready themselves by performing best services for mankind and Tib’.