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Unit of Study NATM2001 - Botanical Medicine (2022)

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  • Enrolment information

    Students are required to attend on-campus classes and participate in online activities. Prior knowledge of chemistry and pharmacology is desirable.

Unit description

Examines the fundamentals of botanical medicine, including plant morphology, botanical taxonomy and herbal pharmacognosy and pharmacology, and applies this knowledge to herbal therapeutics and herbal medicine manufacturing.

Unit content

  1. Botany and plant classification
  2. Pharmacognosy fundamentals
  3. Herbal therapeutics 1
  4. Herbal therapeutics 2
  5. Herbal therapeutics 3
  6. Herbal therapeutics 4

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Not currently available in 2022

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

recognise plant morphology and botanical taxonomy

recognise chemical complexity, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of medicinal plants

identify specific therapeutic actions and clinical indications of medicinal plants

apply knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice to medicinal plants