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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Basic terms - drug, the active substance, medicine, Pharmacopoeia drugs, nomenclature and classification of drugs, effective and ballast compounds. Groups of active compounds in plant and animal drugs - amino acids, peptides, alkaloids, terpenoids, sacharides, polyketides, phenylpropanoids, purines Processing and isolation of drugs from natural material - sampling, homogenization, disintegration, extraction, filtration, chromatographic methods Work with the Pharmacopoeia
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
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Learning outcomes
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Introduction to the topic of natural drugs - fundamentals of pharmacognosy.
After attending the course students should be able to know the basic terms and classification of drugs used in pharmacognosy. They should be able to describe active substances, effects and possibilities of application of selected drugs. Finally students should gain overview about the common methods of drug processing and isolation of active substances.
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Prerequisites
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Intermediate knowledge of organic chemistry and botany including the Latin terminology.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Written exam
Final test (70% = passing)
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Recommended literature
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Český lékopis (poslední platné vydání), Grada, Praha.
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Bílková K., Králová B.:. Izolace biomakromolekul, Praha-VŠChT 1997.
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Hubík J., Dušek J., Spilková J.:. Farmakognosie. Díl 1, Obecná část a primární látky, SPN, Praha 1989.
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Jahodář L.:. Farmakobotanika, Karolinum, Praha 2009.
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Jahodář L.:. Léčivé rostliny v současné medicíně, Havlíček Brain Team, Praha 2010.
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Moravcová J.:. Biologicky aktivní přírodní látky, Praha 2006.
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