73101 - Applied Herbal Medicine I

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Simona Nanni
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: BIO/15
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences (cod. 8518)

Course contents

1. What is herbal medicine

2. Legislative framework of the herbal sector

3. Fiscal requirements to open a herbalist's shop

4. Examination of some issue of medicinal plants used in the herbal sector more views under current regulation

5.How, how much and when? Correct use of herbal preparations

6. Herbal preparations

a. tisanes

b. extracts

c. bud derivatives

d. essential oils

e. oligoelements for human health

7. Use of medicinal plants invarious apparatuses

a. the herbal help to respiratory system

b. the herbal help to osteoporosis

c. the herbal help to anxiety and insomnia

d. the herbal aid in constipation

e.The most common requests in herbal medicine

8. The bee and the man – an ancient alliance

9.The tonic

10. Clay and its use

11.Interpersonal communication customer / herbalist: cultural requirements, professionalism and experiences in comparison

12. The shop management

13. The quality of service

Readings/Bibliography

Suggested readings 

  1. Piante officinali per infusi e tisane Prof. Roberto Della Loggia – Ed. UTET S.p.A. Divisione Scienze Mediche
  2. Piante e integratori per il benessere Fausto Mearelli e Anna Giogli – Edizioni ERBAMEA
  3. Compendio di gemmoterapia clinica Fernando Piterà – De Ferrari Editore
  4. Gemmoterapia nuovi studi clinici Max Tétau-Nuova Ipsa Editore
  5. Il grande manuale dell'aromaterapia Marco Valussi- Ed. Tecniche Nuove
  6. Gli oligoelementi nel futuro terapeutico Alfredo Torti – Ed. Giuseppe Maria Ricchiuto
  7. Compendio bioterapico di integrazione alimentare di oligoterapia e fitoterapia Bruno Tirillini – Edizioni Akros
  8. Le api biologia,allevamento,prodotti Alberto Contessi-Edagricole
  9. Le nuove frontiere della propoli Giuseppe Maria Ricchiuto – Giuseppe Maria Ricchiuto Editore
  10. La propoli: chimica,farmacologia e terapia A.Alì F. Mearelli M.Sgrignani A.Camporese-Edizioni Planta Medica

 

The text of the lectures will be made available to students

Assessment methods

Final paper and discussion on it. Oral exam

Teaching tools

powerpoint slides

Office hours

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