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. |
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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. |
Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases. |
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. |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Assignment (Herbal) 15%. Laboratory Test 15%. Weekly Laboratory Work 10%. Final Examination Paper 60%. This is by grade/mark assessment. |
Field of Education: | 60500 Pharmacy (Narrow Grouping) | HECS Band (if applicable): | 2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: | Informational | Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | | | | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | |
Area
External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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