Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025
Course director
Horváth Györgyi
associate professor,
Institute of Physiology
Number of hours/semester
Lectures: 20 hours
Practices: 8 hours
Seminars: 0 hours
Total of: 28 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OXF-NSG-h-T
- 2 Credit
- General Medicine
- Optional module
- spring
ODA-ORK-T finished , ODA-BEB-T finished , ODA-BIK-T finished
Course headcount limitations
min. 5 people – max. 15 people
Topic
Students will be familiar with the results of the latest studies on medicinal plants used in the prevention and treatment of diseases, and the availability of authorized preparations and their use in modern medicine and health care, with their pharmacobotanical and pharmacognosic knowledge. They should be able to make herbal preparations based on their knowledge.
Task: To present the active ingredient, medicinal use of medicinal herbs and preparations used in healing, to present the latest results of phytotherapy research. Preparing tea blends and externally usable preparations in the practice sessions.
Requirement: Students should be able to apply their acquired knowledge to the highest possible level in their profession.
Lectures
- 1. Introduction. Plants on the market and their role in today's medicine and pharmacy. - Horváth Györgyi
- 2. Availability of medicinal plant products on the Internet: dangers, challenges. - Horváth Györgyi
- 3. Herbs and products acting on the central nervous system. - Horváth Györgyi
- 4. Herbs and products acting on the central nervous system. - Horváth Györgyi
- 5. Herbs and products acting on heart and vascular system. - Horváth Györgyi
- 6. Herbs and products acting on heart and vascular system. - Horváth Györgyi
- 7. Herbs and products acting on respiratory tract. - Horváth Györgyi
- 8. Herbs and products acting on respiratory system. - Horváth Györgyi
- 9. Herbs and products acting on gastrointestinal tract. - Horváth Györgyi
- 10. Herbs and products acting on gastrointestinal tract. - Horváth Györgyi
- 11. Herbs and products acting on urinary tract. - Horváth Györgyi
- 12. Herbs and products acting on urinary tract. - Horváth Györgyi
- 13. Herbal remedies for gynecological complaints. - Horváth Györgyi
- 14. Adaptogens. - Horváth Györgyi
- 15. Herbal remedies for dermatological diseases. - Horváth Györgyi
- 16. Herbal remedies for dermatological diseases. - Horváth Györgyi
- 17. Herbs and remedies for treating pain. - Horváth Györgyi
- 18. Herbs and products for treating pain. - Horváth Györgyi
- 19. Enhancing the body's resistance (plant immunomodulators). - Horváth Györgyi
- 20. Students's lecture. Written test. - Horváth Györgyi
Practices
- 1. Location of herbal remedies in today's pharmaceuticals I: Preparation of herbal product. - Horváth Györgyi
- 2. Location of herbal remedies in today's pharmaceuticals I: Preparation of herbal product. - Horváth Györgyi
- 3. Location of herbal remedies in today's pharmaceuticals II: Evaluation of herbal product. - Horváth Györgyi
- 4. Location of herbal remedies in today's pharmaceuticals II: Evaluation of herbal product. - Horváth Györgyi
- 5. Praparation of herbal tea. - Horváth Györgyi
- 6. Macroscopic and organoleptic examination of herbal tea preparation. - Horváth Györgyi
- 7. Preparation of product containing essential oils. - Horváth Györgyi
- 8. Checking the quality of herbal substances by chromatography: TLC. - Horváth Györgyi
Seminars
Reading material
Obligatory literature
Literature developed by the Department
Notes
Recommended literature
1. Aronson, JK.: Meyler's Side Effects of Herbal Medicines, Elsevier, Oxford 2009
2. ESCOP Monographs, 2nd edition, Thieme, United Kingdom 2003
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
During the semester, writing of one test at an acceptable level (min. 60%) is mandatory. In case of failed result, one possibility to repeat is possible. Taking one student lecture is mandatory.
Mid-term exams
During the semester, writing of one test at an acceptable level (min. 60%) is mandatory. In case of failed result, one possibility to repeat is possible. Taking one student lecture is mandatory.
Making up for missed classes
No replacement is possible.
Exam topics/questions
The topics of the written test is the same with the lectures.
Examiners
Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars
- Horváth Györgyi