11533 (v.2) Pharmacognosy 224

---

 

Area:	School of Pharmacy
Credits:	12.5
Contact Hours:	3.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	The context of pharmacognosy in modern pharmacy and aspects of the nature and role of herbs and herbal remedies. Indigenous (Aboriginal) medicines as sources of information on useful plant-derived medicines and Australian Aboriginal use of medicinal plant materials. Unorganised drugs and fibres. Alkaloids, glycosides, volatile oils and miscellaneous chemical constituents such as coumarins and flavonoids and their characters and importance as bioactive compounds. Western Australian poisonous plants.
Unit Outcomes:	On successful completion of this unit students will have developed an understanding of the nature of crude drugs and their place in modern pharmacy and how crude drugs may be characterised and identified by macroscopic, microscopic and chemical means. Demonstrated the capacity to select thin layer chromatographic techniques as applied to constituents of crude drugs. Developed an understanding of the nature of selected herbs and their role in herbal remedies. Demonstrated a knowledge of selected poisonousplants of significance in Western Australia.
Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information.
Unit References:	British Pharmacopoeia, Current Edition, London, HMSO. Evans W.C,. (1989), Trease and Evans' Pharmacognosy, 13th ed., London, Bailliere Tindall. Jackson B.P. and Snowdon D.W., (1990), Atlas of Microscopy of Medicinal Plants, Culinary Herbs and Spices, London, Belhaven Press.
Unit Texts:	Pharmacognosy 224 Resource Manual, Curtin University of Technology.
Unit Assessment Breakdown:	Assignment (Herbal) 15%. Laboratory Test 15%. Weekly Laboratory Work 10%. Final Examination Paper 60%. This is by grade/mark assessment.
Year Location Period Internal Area External Central External 2004 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y     2004 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y