This course focuses on natural products (plants, marines, fungus and others) which used in the pharmaceutical practice (with physiological effects or used in the pharmaceutical industry) also focuses how to prepare medications from them
The course is designed to give pharmacy students with background information about evidenced based naturaceuticals and their uses in pharmaceutical practice.
Knowledge and Understanding:
a.1. To recognize classifications of natural products
a.2. To list the biological sources of natural medications.
a.3. To describe the Palestinian natural products..
a.4. To explain the biologically active principles in each natural product.
a.5. To identify the medications in Palestine which are made from natural sources
b- Intellectual Skills.
b.1. To explain the side effect of the natural products according to their constituents.
b.3. To evaluate where the use of natural products has evidence based medical uses or not also to analyze their advantages and disadvantages in the pharmaceutical practice.
c- Professional and Practical Skills:
c.1. To solve problems in case of ingestion of harmful natural products.
c.2. To carry out research projects about folk natural products remedies
c.3. To write reports about the natural products with narcotic effects.
c.4. To demonstrate the drug-drugs interactions and contraindications for patients
d- General and transferable skills:
d.1. Search Internet data base for medicinal plants.
d.2. Independent learning
d.3. Appreciate team work in seminar.
TEXT BOOK:
-Drugs from Plants, Pravin Chandra Trivedi, 2010
-Handbook on Drugs from Natural Sources, H. Panda , 2010
-Natural Products, by Madjackfrost on October 7, 2009
REFERENCES
-Published scientific papers.
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS OR EQUIPMENT NEEDED FOR THE COURSE
-Internet resources
-Trease and Evans Pharmacognosy,2010
- Hand Book on Herbal Drugs and Its Plant Sources,2004
Activity | Percent (%) |
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Mid-term Exam | 30% |
Seminars and review presentation | 20% |
Final Exam | 50% |