Loyola College B.Sc. Plant Biology and Biotechnology April 2007 Herbal And Ethanobotany Question Paper PDF Download

LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

B.Sc.

IB 32

DEGREE EXAMINATION –PLANT BIOLOGY & PLANT BIO-TECH.

FIFTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2007

PB 5503HERBAL AND ETHANOBOTANY

 

 

Date & Time: 28/04/2007 / 1:00 – 4:00          Dept. No.                                                     Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

 

Part A

 

Answer all questions                                                                                     (20 X 01 = 20)

 

  1. Choose the best answer. (05 x 01 = 05)

 

01.Tribals always wish to live in harmony with

  1. Ecosystem b. Environment    c. Nature                 d. World
  2. Extract of ______ is used in hair oils.
  3. Coriandrum sativum b. Eclipta alba      c. Phyllanthus amarus       d. Ocimum sanctum
  4. Sitz bath is also known as ______ bath
  5. Oat b. Lavender                             c. Hydrotherapy          d. Hip
  6. Who systematized Unani medicine?
  7. Hippocrates     b. Theophrastus           c. S K Jain                   d. E K Janakiammal
  8. Siddha system of medicine is otherwise called as _______ medicine
  9. Malay             b. Chinese                   c. Indian                      d. Hindu

 

  1. State true or false. (05 x 01 = 05)

 

  1. Crystallization of herbal constituents proceeds microextraction and microfiltration.
  2. Curative principles for Jaundice are extracted from Phyllanthus amarus.
  3. Deterioration means the addition of a spurious material to any article to defraud.
  4. Infusion of leaf extracts of Ocimum sanctum is seldom recommended by physicians.
  5. Comfrey goo is herbal oil.

 

III. Complete the following.                                                                           (05 x 01 = 05)

 

  1. ______ is the alkaloid extracted from Adathoda vasica used as an expectorant.
  2. ______ involve the exclusive use of glycerin instead of honey.
  3. Drug color names are standardized and determined by ______.
  4. ______ are some selected plants considered by tribes as sacred.
  5. ______ is the pioneering ethnobotanist of Botanical Survey of India (BSI).

 

  1. Answer the following, each within 50 words (05 x 01 = 05)

 

  1. What are suppositories?
  2. Write for any two medicinal properties of Ocimum sanctum.
  3. What is Materia Medica?
  4. Name the terpenoid extracted from Azadirachta indica. Mention its importance.
  5. What do you mean by Baram or Charam?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part B

 

Answer any Five of the following, each not exceeding 350 words.           ( 05 x 08 = 40)

 

  1. What is drug adulteration? Mention any six methods of adulteration.
  2. Enumerate the strategies implemented by tribes towards conservation of medicinal plants.
  3. How the ethnobotanical research is carried out in India?
  4. What is a Patent? Discuss about it in the context of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).
  5. Explain how tribals diagnose and treat diseases?
  6. Write down the importance and scope of ethnobotany in India.
  7. Describe in brief the methods involved in the preparation of medicinal herbs towards further extraction.
  8. With suitable diagrams, describe any one of the following in organoleptic terms.
  9. Zingiber officinale (or)      ii. Phyllanthus amarus

 

 

Part C

 

Answer the following, each not exceeding 1500 words.                             (02 x 20 = 40).

 

29  (a). Write an essay on organoleptic evaluation of drugs.

(or)

(b). Describe the importance of ethnobotany in alternate systems of medicine in India.

30  (a). How to extract phytopharmaceuticals?

(or)

(b). Explain the methodology of preparation of the following:

  1. Poultices ii. Compresses or Fomentations   iii. Glycerites   iv. Elixirs

 

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