Baba Mastnath University (BMU), Rohtak - Department of Dravyaguna

Shri Baba Mastnath Ayurvedic College was established in 1957 by Mahant Shri Shryonath ji. He was a well known Vaidya with Impeccable knowledge of Nadi Vigyan. The college was established for the welfare of the weaker section of society. This is a pioneer ayurvedic college in Haryana to start Ayurved education. The college is approved by CCIM and Ministry of AYUSH Govt. of India New Delhi. This is one of institution of India that offers undergraduate course in BAMS with an intake of 60 students per year.

The college has earned reputation for having well equipped hospital with a central laboratory, pharmacy, herbal garden, Library and dedicated faculty. This college has 14 departments.

The department comparable to pharmacological sciences of modern medicine deals with teaching of pharmacology in Ayurveda like drug identification, standardization pharmaco kinetics, pharmaco dynamics and pharmaco therapeutics. The department maintains an excellent well-kept herbal garden with sufficient water supply. The department also boosts of an excellent museum showing therapeutically important new drugs, hundreds of herbal sheets of different species of drugs, preserved dry herbal drugs for their identification, preserved plants for pharmacognistical study and a photo album of various species of drugs including red listed and endangered species belonging to different habitat and distribution. The subject Dravyaguna Vigyan deals with basic principles of mode of action of drug and detailed study of herbal drugs thus creating platform for therapeutic application of herbs. This subject is backbone of clinical practice. The subject also includes standardization of Medicinal plants. Amongst all the available sources of drugs in various therapies herbal drugs are proved to be safest; so more and more people are attracted and wish to undergo only herbal therapy. These Herbal Medicines are gaining more & more importance not only in India but also abroad. The subject also has great potential in industries as Dravyaguna experts are required in different fields like in pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies, research Institutes, Medicinal plant conservation & cultivation sector etc. Post graduation in Dravyaguna subject offers wide range of job opportunities.