PHARMACEUTICAL BOTANY

Provide students with the knowledge of the main plants of pharmaceutical interest and specific herbal and their use in the pharmaceutical and herbal.

Introduction to the study of the Pharmaceutical Botany. Classification. species concept. taxonomic system and evolution of systems. Supply of Medicinal Plants.

Vegetable drugs: classification and factors that influence the content of active ingredients.
Vegetative reproduction. Sexual reproduction. The spores. The biological cycles. The apomixis.
Mushrooms. Morphology. The mycelium. Heterotrophy. Propagation. sexual reproduction. Systematics of mushrooms. Morphology, ontogenetic cycle and practical interest of: Zygomycota, Ascomycota, Basidiomycota. Intoxication with mushrooms
Algae. General characters. Morphology, ontogenetic cycle and practical interest of: Rhodophyta: Gelidiaceae: Gelidium Sp .; Gigartinaceae: Chondrus crispus; Phaeophyta: Laminariaceae: Laminaria sp., Fucus
Lichens. The lichen symbiosis. Morphology. utilization
Mosses. The cormophytes. Bryophytes. Hepatophyta. Bryophyta.
Pteridophytes. Morphology, ontogenetic cycle and practical interest of: Lycopodiales, equisetales, Filicales.
Spermatophytes. Gymnosperms. Morphology, ontogenetic cycle and practical interest of: Cycadophyta, Ginkgophyta, Coniferophyta, Ephedrales
Angiosperms. The flower and its entirety. The inflorescences. Sexual reproduction. The seed. The fruit. Leaves.
Classification of angiosperms.
Primary and secondary metabolites

LILIOPSIDA (MONOCOTILEDONES)

ALLIACEAE: Allium sativum;
AGAVACEAE: Agave americana
ASPARAGACEAE: Convallaria majalis; Asparagus officinalis
LILIACEAE: Drimia maritima (Urginea maritima), Colchicum autumnale

MAGNOLIOPSIDA (DICOTILEDONES)
LAURACEAE: Cinnamomum sp., Laurus nobilis
PAPAVERACEAE: Papaver somniferum, Chelidonium majus
CANNABACEAE: Cannabis sativa. Humulus lupulus
POLYGONACEAE: Reum sp.
STERCULIACEAE: Cola acuminata, C. vera, Teobroma cacao
FABACEAE: Glycyrrhiza glabra
EUPHORBIACEAE: Ricinus communis
RHAMNACEAE: Rhamnus frangula, R. purshiana
ERYTHROXYLACEAE: Erythroxylon coca
APOCYNACEAE: Strophanthus sp., Rauwolfia serpentina
SOLANACEAE: Atropa belladonna, Datura stramonium, Nicotina tabacum
SCROPHULARIACEAE: Digitalis sp.
VALERIANACEAE: Valeriana officinalis
RUBIACEAE: Cinchona sp.,
ASTERACEAE: Matricaria chamomilla, Anthemis nobilis.

1. Maugini E., Maleci Bini L., Mariotti Lippi M. - Manuale di Botanica Farmaceutica IX Ed. – PICCIN 2014
2. Leporatti M., Foddai S., Tommasini L. - Testo atlante di anatomia vegetale e delle piante officinali – PICCIN 1997