Medical Botany
Examines how plant chemicals act as drugs or toxins in human health, covering poisonous, psychoactive, and medicinal plants in indigenous, modern, and alternative contexts.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Provide examples of plant species that cause medical conditions in animals and humans.
Provide examples of ways that plant-derived products are used in modern medicine and their modes of action.
Discuss the evolutionary and ecological roles of medicinal phytochemicals in the context of plant physiology.
Contrast the cultural importance and roles of plants and plant-derived compounds in modern, traditional, and alternative medicine.
Prepare a scientifically accurate presentation on a topic in medicinal botany grounded in the primary literature.
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Course map(BOTANY 100,BOTANY/BIOLOGY 130,ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY/BOTANY 152,BOTANY 240, or BIOCORE 383) and (CHEM 103,CHEM 108,CHEM 109, or CHEM 115) or graduate/professional standing
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The ways plants affect human health, including both helpful and harmful roles. Examine plant chemicals to understand both their roles in plants and how they may act in the human body as drugs or toxins. Topics include the use of poisonous, psychoactive, and other medicinal plants in indigenous cultures and in modern and alternative medicine.
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Topics
- Plant chemicals as drugs and toxins in the human body.
- Use of poisonous, psychoactive, and medicinal plants in indigenous, modern, and alternative medicine.
- Evolutionary and ecological roles of medicinal phytochemicals in plant physiology.
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- Identify plant species causing medical conditions and explain how plant-derived products function in modern medicine.
- Analyze the evolutionary and ecological roles of medicinal phytochemicals within plant physiology.
- Compare the cultural roles of plants in modern, traditional, and alternative medicine systems.
- Prepare scientific presentations on medicinal botany topics based on primary literature.
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