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PHARMACOGNOSY
Director: Dr. Anna Blázovics
Lecturer: Prof. Ágnes Kéry
Tutor: Dr. Andrea Balázs
Second Semester
SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF PHARMACY
Lectures (2 hours per week) Practicals (4 hours per week)
Pharmacognosy, History of pharmacognosy. Introduction, safety rules.
Medicinal plant - vegetable drug.
Nomenclature. Classification of vegetable drugs.
From plant to phytopharmaceutical (phytotherapy). General methods in quality control of
vegetable drugs.
Sources of drugs, factors involved in the production
of drugs. Quality control.
Compounds of primary metabolism. Vegetable drugs containing
Carbohydrates. Mono- and oligosaccharides and carbohydrates.
their drugs. Homogenous polysaccharides and their drugs. (Starches, mucilages, etc.)
Heterogenous polysaccharides: gums, neutral and Plant acids and their drugs.
acidic mucilages, pectins; polysaccharides from
microorganisms and fungi. Algae polysaccharides.
Lipids. Generalities, vegetable oils, alkyne derivatives. Vegetable oils.
Amino acids (which are not constituens of proteins). Flavonoids and chief flavonoid drugs.
Cyanogenic glycosides, glicosinolates. Betalains. Anthocyanins.
Protein sweeteners. Lectins. Enzymes.
Compounds of special (secondary) metabolism. Methods,used in flavonoid and phenoloid
Plant phenolics in general. Phenols, phenolic acids, chemistry.
derivatives and crude drugs.
Coumarins and coumarin containing drugs. HPLC of flavonoids.
Medicinal application and toxicity.
Lignans, lignan containing drugs. Biological interest of Tannins and chief tannin drugs.
lignans. Silybum marianum and its significance.
Flavonoids, chemical structure and classification, Methods used in tannin chemistry.
biological properties, use of flavonoid-containing drugs,
therapeutical significans.
Chief flavonoid containing vegetable drugs. Laxative hydroxy-anthraquinone drugs.
(Crataegus species, Ginkgo biloba, etc.) Naphthodianthrones.
Isoflavonoids, rotenoids, biological significance. Methods used in hydroxyanthraquinone
Anthocyanins, chief anthocyanin-containing drugs. chemistry
Phenoloids in Zingiberaceae family
(diarylheptanoids and arylalkanones)
Tannins. Classification of tannins. Structures and Phloroglucinols.
properties of hydralyzable and condensed tannins, Cannabis sativa.
biological significance. Chief tannin -containing drugs.
Polyketides-quinones. Naphthoquinone-containing Personal task.
drugs. Laxative hydroxyanthraquinone glycosides.
Pharmacological properties.
Main hydroxianthraquinone glycoside-containing drugs.
Naphthodianthrone and diterpene quinone Consultation.
containing drugs. Hypericum perforatum.
Orcinols and phloroglucinols. Cannabis.
Humulus lupulus.
Faculty of
Pharmacy
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