Revista de Ciências Biomédicas e Farmacêuticas

“Pharmacognosy” obtains from two Greek words, “pharmakon” or drug, and “gnosis” or knowledge. Like countless complementing branchs of science, Pharmacognosy has undergone crucial change in recent years and today acts for a highly interdisciplinary science that is one of five major regions of pharmaceutical education.

Channa punctatus is fresh water fish. It has pharmaceutical potential to prevent cardiac disorders, skin infections, diabetes etc. By lipid test profile, Analytical method, Chromatography method, Enzyme method, we found in Channa punctatus fatty acid, glycine, lysine, arachidonic acid, DHA, etc. Channa punctatus has be used as biomedical and nutraceutical products.