Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025
Course director
Balázs Viktória Lilla
assistant professor,
Department of Pharmacognosy
Number of hours/semester
Lectures: 28 hours
Practices: 0 hours
Seminars: 0 hours
Total of: 28 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OTF-EGZ-T
- 2 Credit
- Biotechnology BSc
- Optional module
- autumn
haven't
Course headcount limitations
min. 5 people – max. 25 people
Topic
The course includes 28 lectures. The aim of the course is to present the most frequently used exotic plants in the medical therapy. The course gives a general overview about the botanical character, active ingredients, and drug part of the plants. Application forms and safety instructions are also highlighted during the lectures. Herbs and drugs will presented according to their areas of application.
Lectures
- 1. Herbs of the gastrointestinal tract I. - Ács Kamilla
- 2. Herbs of the gastrointestinal tract II. - Ács Kamilla
- 3. Herbs of the gastrointestinal tract III. - Ács Kamilla
- 4. Herbs of the gastrointestinal tract IV. - Ács Kamilla
- 5. Aromatic plants and products containing essential oils I. - Ács Kamilla
- 6. Aromatic plants and products containing essential oils II. - Ács Kamilla
- 7. Aromatic plants and products containing essential oils III. - Ács Kamilla
- 8. Aromatic plants and products containing essential oils IV. - Ács Kamilla
- 9. Herbs and products containing fatty oils I. - Ács Kamilla
- 10. Herbs and products containing fatty oils II. - Ács Kamilla
- 11. Plants for external use, dermatology and cosmetics I. - Ács Kamilla
- 12. Plants for external use, dermatology and cosmetics II. - Ács Kamilla
- 13. Plants which affect the central nervous system I. - Ács Kamilla
- 14. Plants which affect the central nervous system II. - Ács Kamilla
- 15. Plants for cardiovascular disorders I. - Ács Kamilla
- 16. Plants for cardiovascular disorders II. - Ács Kamilla
- 17. Plants for well-being I. - Ács Kamilla
- 18. Plants for well-being II. - Ács Kamilla
- 19. Psychoactive and hallucinogenic plants I. - Ács Kamilla
- 20. Psychoactive and hallucinogenic plants II. - Ács Kamilla
- 21. Plants with immunostimulant effect I. - Ács Kamilla
- 22. Plants with immunostimulant effect II. - Ács Kamilla
- 23. Plants for tropical, and contagious diseases I. - Ács Kamilla
- 24. Plants for tropical, and contagious diseases II. - Ács Kamilla
- 25. Presentations of students I. - Ács Kamilla
- 26. Presentations of students II. - Ács Kamilla
- 27. Exam - Ács Kamilla
- 28. Exam - Ács Kamilla
Practices
Seminars
Reading material
Obligatory literature
Literature developed by the Department
Notes
Recommended literature
Bremness L. (1988): The Complete Book of Herbs: A Practical Guide to Growing and Using Herbs.
Ratsch C., Hofmann A.(2007): The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications.
Kane C.W. (2007): Medicinal Plants of the Western Mountain States
Bett J. (2015): Chinese Medicinal Plants: How To Grow Them, How To Use Them: Growing and Using Herbs And Plants For Natural Remedies And Healing.
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
preparation of a one-page thesis to be submitted
Mid-term exams
Oral presentation about a medicinal value of a selected plant. Fulfillment of the final test (minimum 60%).
Making up for missed classes
Downloading of lectures in Neptun.
Exam topics/questions
It is similar to the topics of lectures.