2024
Phytotherapy
Name: Phytotherapy
Code: QUI13760I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area:
Ciências Farmacêuticas
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Presentation
Phytotherapy aims to provide students with knowledge about the specificity of the use of medicinal plants in the prevention, treatment and diagnosis of diseases, regarding to the synergism of their constituents and their complementarity of action, as well as the main contraindications and interactions inherent to its use.
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
This curricular unit aims to make students aware of the specificity of the study and use of medicinal plants in the prevention, treatment and diagnosis of diseases, with regard to the synergism of their constituents and the complementarity of their action, as well as the medicinal plants most used in products herbal health care and its respective therapeutic use as well as the main contraindications and interactions inherent to its use.
Students should acquire technical, scientific and research skills, to manipulate and use herbal health products, as well as to evaluate the quality, effectiveness and safety of these products, necessary for the correct advice of medicinal plants and health products based on plants.
Students should acquire technical, scientific and research skills, to manipulate and use herbal health products, as well as to evaluate the quality, effectiveness and safety of these products, necessary for the correct advice of medicinal plants and health products based on plants.
Contents
Theoretical component:
Introduction to the Phytotherapy. Concepts and historical context. Phytotherapy in the current therapy.
Medicinal plants and health products based on plants. The status of herbal medicines and food supplements. Legislation of Community and World Health Organization.
Obtaining and preserving medicinal plants and quality control processes.
The use of medicinal plants: active constituents, pharmacological activity, indications, dosage, interactions, adverse actions and toxicity.
Plants and products used in Phytotherapy with activity in the respiratory system; in the nervous system; in the cardiovascular system; in the digestive system; in the urinary tract; immune system, trauma and pain control.
Practical component:
Identity and quality control of medicinal herbal preparations available on the market. Preparation of a product report.
Research in databases and discussion of practical cases on the different programmatic topics.
Introduction to the Phytotherapy. Concepts and historical context. Phytotherapy in the current therapy.
Medicinal plants and health products based on plants. The status of herbal medicines and food supplements. Legislation of Community and World Health Organization.
Obtaining and preserving medicinal plants and quality control processes.
The use of medicinal plants: active constituents, pharmacological activity, indications, dosage, interactions, adverse actions and toxicity.
Plants and products used in Phytotherapy with activity in the respiratory system; in the nervous system; in the cardiovascular system; in the digestive system; in the urinary tract; immune system, trauma and pain control.
Practical component:
Identity and quality control of medicinal herbal preparations available on the market. Preparation of a product report.
Research in databases and discussion of practical cases on the different programmatic topics.
Teaching Methods
The programmatic contents are interactive, encouraging research of information, autonomous work and the development a critical attitude and scientific rigor.
Theoretical classes are plenary, with exposition of scientific contents and illustration of examples that concretize these concepts. Practical laboratorial classes aim to promote the participation of the student on the execution of experimental works and interpretation of results.
The laboratorial component (PL) is evaluated continuously, based on attendance and in the preparation of the report of a product of natural origin, as well as in the discussion of applied practical cases.
The theoretical component (NT) will be evaluated based on the participation of students as well as in the elaboration and discussion of a research work of an applied subject of the curricular unit.
The final grade will be calculated as follows: NF = 0.5 * PL + 0.5 * NT.
Theoretical classes are plenary, with exposition of scientific contents and illustration of examples that concretize these concepts. Practical laboratorial classes aim to promote the participation of the student on the execution of experimental works and interpretation of results.
The laboratorial component (PL) is evaluated continuously, based on attendance and in the preparation of the report of a product of natural origin, as well as in the discussion of applied practical cases.
The theoretical component (NT) will be evaluated based on the participation of students as well as in the elaboration and discussion of a research work of an applied subject of the curricular unit.
The final grade will be calculated as follows: NF = 0.5 * PL + 0.5 * NT.
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