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PHA 405 — Ethnopharmacology

PHA department course · Nigerian universities

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

explain the key definitions/terms used in ethnopharmacology and historical perspective of ethnopharmacology
describe the process (various stages) of drug discovery using ethnopharmacology approach
identify the values and challenges/issues of drug discovery from natural products; and
explain the WHO traditional medicine strategy to address the challenges/issues

Course contents

Definitions, historical and religious basis of ethnomedicine – The medicine of Avicena, Esculapius and Galen. Key events in the development of modern Pharmacy including examples of important drugs developed from ethnopharmacology (the Calabar bean, South American arrow poison, Coca chewing and opium poppy smoking of the American Indians…

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PHA 405 — Ethnopharmacology

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

Course contents

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