| dc.description | Pharmacognosy covers general aspects of medicinal plants (such as industrial applications, research, cultivation and cultivars, gene technology, critical evaluation of holistic medicine and homeopathy, possibilities of phytotherapy) and discusses the chemical composition and other qualitative characteristics, as well as the most important areas of usage and pharmacology of herbal drugs and drug fractions such as essential oils. Today many people purchase medicinal plants and herbal products to prevent or cure diseases. Therefore specialists (physicians and pharmacists) should become acquainted with medicinal plants and drugs that are used in pharmacotherapy (especially in phytotherapy) both in Hungary and abroad. Our pharmacy students are required to recognize the most important drugs that are traded and/or imported in Hungary and are official in the Hungarian and European Pharmacopoeias. Pharmacognosy 2 digital learning material contains the most important medicinal plants and their drugs which are characterized according to their active compounds, usage, dosage, interactions with other drugs and side-effects. Drugs containing sugars and/or mucilage and fatty oils are introduced in the Pharmacognosy 1 digital learning material. Hopefully, this teaching supplement will be a useful reference text for medical doctors, pharmacists, students and teachers of pharmacognosy, herbalists, botanists, natural product chemists and pharmacologists who require information on medicinal plants. | en_EN |
