Pharmacognosy and Natural Products

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Pre -requisites: FAQM 6351, FAQM 6703. Pharmacognosy literally means “knowledge of drugs”. From a historical point of view, the first drugs used by humans came from natural products, and so, Pharmacognosy has retained its basic concept. Inside the natural products range, the superior plants compose the highest percent of the source from where the drugs have been isolated. The objectives of the course are centralized in the isolation and determination of the structure of the compounds from plants. In this course lecture, student oral presentation and internet search will be used among other instructional strategy.