Unit RECOGNITION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS AND THEIR DRUGS
- Course
- Pharmacy
- Study-unit Code
- A003567
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Maria Carla Marcotullio
- Teachers
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- Maria Carla Marcotullio
- Hours
- 56 ore - Maria Carla Marcotullio
- CFU
- 7
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline farmaceutico-alimentari
- Academic discipline
- BIO/15
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Knowledge of medicinal plants and their systematics. Knowledge of crude drugs and bioactive compounds on their formulation and quality control methods.
- Reference texts
- Capasso- Farmacognosia. Botanica, chimica e farmacologia delle piante medicinali-2011-Springer F. Poli- Biologia farmaceutica- Pearson A. Bruni- Farmacognosia generale e applicata-1999-Piccin Capasso, R., Borrelli, F., Longo, R., Capasso, F.-Farmacognosia applicata-2007- Springer Slides
- Educational objectives
- systematic plant groups, with reference to medicinal plants. Furthermore, he will be able to determine the pharmaceutical employ of plants and crude drugs, main pharmaceutical formulations containing plants, their therapeutic use, and the principal analytic methods.
- Prerequisites
- Knowledge of the main topics of plant biology and organic chemistry. For the final examination, students must have passed the exams of Plant biology.
- Teaching methods
- Metodi didattici METODI_DID Sì Il corso consiste di lezioni frontali, durante le quali gli argomenti discussi saranno integrati dalla presentazione di immagini correlate agli argomenti. La struttura delle lezioni è impostata su un dialogo interattivo e ragionato docente-studente. Didactic methods are mainly based on front lectures that will explain different topics with the help of slides. The classes are set as an interactive dialogue between student-teacher.
- Other information
- Attending the course is not compulsory, but is highly recommended.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam (30-40 min). The student will have to talk about a topic of botany, one of general pharmacognosy and one of special pharmacognosy. The student will have to recognize crude drugs presented during lessons.
- Extended program
- Programma esteso PROGR_EST Sì Fondamenti di Farmacognosia. Definizione di droga e di parte impiegata. Principali caratteristiche morfologiche delle droghe. Fattori che influenzano la qualità farmaceutica delle droghe. Il controllo botanico-farmacognostico e il controllo fitochimico. Metaboliti secondari di interesse farmaceutico: carboidrati, lipidi, glicosidi, composti terpenici, iridoidi, cannabinoidi, antrachinoni, alcaloidi, fenoli semplici, flavonoidi e derivati, tannini e polifenoli, cumarine, fenilpropani. Sostenibilità nell’approviggionamento delle piante medicinali e dei principi attivi. Estrazione dei fitocomplessi e dei principi attivi da droghe secche e fresche: infusione, decozione, macerazione, digestione, percolazione, estrazione con fluidi supercritici, estrazione con solventi, con Soxhlet, spremitura. Oli essenziali: definizione, caratterizzazione e preparazione (distillazione, enfleurage e spremitura). Droghe a carboidrati, a terpeni, ad alcaloidi, ad antrachinoni, a fenoli, adattogene e a saponine. Le principali droghe di interesse farmaceutico. sistema immunitario. Droghe voluttuarie. Aims and scope of pharmacognosy. Crude drug and parts used definition. From plants to crude drugs. Factors affecting the quality of crude drugs. Botanical-pharmacognostic control and phytochemical control, control of the production steps. Secondary metabolites and their pharmaceutical importance: carbohydrates, lipids, glycosides, terpenic compounds, iridoids, cannabinoids, anthraquinones, alkaloids, phenols, flavonoids and derivatives, tannins and polyphenols, coumarins, phenylpropanoids. Sustainability in the production of medicinal plants and bioactive compounds. Main topics of extraction methods of phytocomplexes and active compounds from crude drugs and fresh plant samples: infusion, decoction, maceration, digestions, percolation, distillation, supercritical fluids extraction, Soxhlet extraction, pressing. Crude drugs containing carbohydrates, terpenes, phenols, alkaloids, anthraquinones, adaptogen and saponins. Voluptuary crude drugs. Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile OB_SVIL_SOS 4000 No Salute e benessere. Health and wellness.
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Health and wellness