Unit MEDICINAL PLANTS AND HERBAL MEDICINES
- Course
- Pharmacy
- Study-unit Code
- A000575
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Maria Carla Marcotullio
- Teachers
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- Maria Carla Marcotullio
- Hours
- 28 ore - Maria Carla Marcotullio
- CFU
- 4
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2019
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- BIO/15
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Phytotherapy. Crude drug, active principle and phytocomplex. Classes of active principles. Herbal products and their formulation.
- Reference texts
- F. Firenzuoli - Fitoterapia- Edra
F. Capasso, G. Grandolini, A.A. Izzo- Fitoterapia- Springer Verlag, 2006
Slides - Educational objectives
- The student will acquire the skills of dealing with the use of herbal products used in phytotherapy and food supplementation.
- Prerequisites
- It is important the knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology and Organic chemistry.
- Teaching methods
- Didactic methods are mainly based on front lectures that will explain different topics with the help of slides. The lectures are set as an interactive and discussed dialogue between student-teacher.
- Other information
- Attendance is not compulsory, but encouraged
- Learning verification modality
- Oral examination (20-30 min)
- Extended program
- Phytotherapy and conventional therapy. Crude drug, acive compounds and phytocomplex. Classes of phytochemicals and factors affecting their presece. Herbal products and their formulations. Herbal products: claims, interactions and adverse effects.
Interactions between conventional therapies and herbal products.Herbal products affecting; gastrointestinal apparatus and digestion, liver and bile ducts, urinary system, adaptogen herbal products. Herbal products affecting: respiratory system, CNS and ANS. Methods to improve aparent solubility and bioavailability API from vegetable source.