The purpose of pharmaceutical botanics course is taxonomical classification of medical plants that are used in treatment and prevention of diseases and teaching their morphological characteristics to pharmacy faculty students, as well as the methods to identify them. Also, within the scope of pharmaceutical botanics course, general knowledge about the plants used as nutritional supplements in pharmaceutical technology, as well as group of others that are used in phytotherapy, are taught in the classes; students also learn about anatomical and morphological characteristics of these plants and also the way they spread, briefly their chemical compounds, bioactivities, economical values and historical usage. Moreover, students are taught general knowledge about poisonous plants. Identfying the plant scientifically is the starting point of the whole the process of producing medication from the raw material that was obtained from the plant. Therefore, in addition to being one of the important disciplines of the pharmacy faculty, pharmaceutical botanics course requires substantial fund of knowledge.
Areas of Study:
Studies about flora of Turkey, medical plant systematics, herbarium studies, quality control operations
