II. Department of Pharmacognosy & Natural Products (PG)
The Department deals with topics related to plants and drugs of natural resources concerning their morphology , histology , chemical constituents and uses .
Moreover, the department concerns with study of some poisonous plants and narcotics
Courses Offered or Supervised by Department of Pharmacognosy and Natural Products (PG): Pharm D – (New Bylaw 2019)
| Required Courses | |||||||||
| Course Title | Human Rights and Fighting Corruption | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGD 101 | Credit Hours | 1 | Lecture | 1 | Tutorial | 0 | Practical | 0 |
| Department | Pharmacognosy and Natural products | ||||||||
| Course Description: | |||||||||
| The course provides an introduction to basic human rights philosophy, principles, instruments and institutions, and also an overview of current issues and debates in the medical and pharmaceutical field with focus on the problems specific to our country. This course also aims to explore some aspects of the diverse and increasingly complex body of international law of human rights that has both national and international application. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Medicinal Plants | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGD 102 | Credit Hours | 3 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 1 | Practical | 2 |
| Course Description: | |||||||||
| The course provides the students with Classification of living organisms (plant, animal, fungi, protista, eubacteria and archaebacterias). Taxonomic classification of plant kingdom, plant nomenclature (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species). Microscopical study of the cell and the cell wall (prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells) and cell differentiation in different plant organs (parenchyma, collenchyma, sclerenchyma…..etc). Ergastic cell contents (reserve food material and active constituents. Plant body cells and tissues (stem, root, leaves, flowers, seeds, barks and woods). Preparation of crude drug (Collection of medicinal plants, processing of plant material, storage of crude drugs). In addition to study of medicinal leaves concering their morphology, histology, podwer, constituents and uses. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Pharmacognosy I | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGD 201 | Credit Hours | 3 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 1 | Practical | 2 |
| Course Description: | |||||||||
| After completion of the course the student have the knowledge and acquires skills that helps her/him to recognize and identify different commercial and pharmaceutical starches, barks, leaves, woods, flowers and seeds drugs in entire and powdered forms. The student should recognize the possible ways of adulteration of these drugs when occur in powdered form by the help of microscopical examination and the recommended and specific chemical tests. The subject allows the student to acquire knowledge about the quality control of herbal drugs in particular regards to contamination and ability to differentiate between genuine and adulterated drugs | |||||||||
| Course Title | Pharmacognosy II | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGD 202 | Credit Hours | 3 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 1 | Practical | 2 |
| Course Description: | |||||||||
| Continuation of the course Pharmacognosy I, this course allows the student to acquire the knowledge and skill that helps her/him to recognize and identify, fruits, herbs, subterranean organs, drugs derived from animal origin and unorganized drugs in entire and powder form. The student should recognize the principles of quality control of these drugs including microbiological and other contamination. Also the student should recognize the possible ways of adulteration of these drugs particularly when occur in powdered form by the help of microscopical examination and the recommended and specific chemical tests. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Phytochemistry I | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGD 301 | Credit Hours | 3 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 1 | Practical | 2 |
| Course Description: | |||||||||
| The course introduces the student to the biogenetical origin of secondary metabolites. The general method of isolation and characterization of different types of plant constituents. The distribution, chemical structure, physico-chemical properties, methods of isolation and identification and medicinal uses of volatile oils, carbohydrates and their derivatives and glycosides. The course enables the student to categorize the different types of secondary metabolite, predict therapeutic and toxic effects based on the chemical structure of the constituents. Propose structure modification that yields the production of more effective and less toxic products. Predict the use of natural products for the production of synthetic analogues with similar or more potent pharmacological activity. The course allows the student to have the basic methods for extraction, isolation purification and identification of the natural compounds and the quantitative analysis of the natural compounds. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Phytochemistry II | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGD 302 | Credit Hours | 3 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 1 | Practical | 2 |
| Course Description: | |||||||||
| The course is a continuation of phytochemistry I. It includes the study of alkaloids, marine natural products, miscellaneous isoprenoids and bitters and principles of chromatography. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Applied and Forensic Pharmacognosy | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGD 401 | Credit Hours | 2 | Lecture | 1 | Tutorial | 0 | Practical | 2 |
| Course Description: | |||||||||
| The course includes the Study of plants and their natural products that constitute health hazards, or intended for criminal uses to produce, abortion, loss of mental control, hallucination, death due to dehydration or heart arrest. Illegal poisoning of well-water and killing farm animals. Also it includes the study of drug dependents, narcotics, analgesics psychoenergetics, euphoric. Mycotoxin as a serious threat to general health and safety of community, contamination of food material with poisonous fungi. As well as evaluation of drugs: Sampling, structural, physical and analytical standards, adulteration of drugs and their detection. In addition to modern techniques of chromatography, choice of suitable chromatographic system, Gas chromatography, pressurized liquid chromatography HPLC, LC-MS. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Phytotherapy and Aromatherapy | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGD 501 | Credit Hours | 3 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 0 | Practical | 2 |
| Course Description: | |||||||||
| Upon successful completion of this course, the students should be able to know guidelines for prescribing herbal medicinal drugs on the basis of the pharmacological properties of these drugs including therapeutic uses, mechanism of action, dosage, adverse reactions, contraindications & drug interactions. The course also allows students understand pharmacotherapeutic principles applied to the treatment of different diseases, pharmacovigilance and rational use of drugs. Also the student should understand the basis of complementary and alternative medicine with emphasis on herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, homeopathies, aromatherapy & their effect on maintaining optimum health and prevention of chronic diseases | |||||||||
| Elective Courses | |||||||||
| Course Title | Natural Cosmetics | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGD E01 | Credit Hours | 2 | Lecture | 1 | Tutorial | 2 | Practical | 0 |
| Course Description: | |||||||||
| The course will acquire the students by natural products used in the different cosmetic preparations including skin care products, hair care including their mechanism of action, adverse reaction, side effects and contraindication and methods of formulation. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Herbal medicine. | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGD E02 | Credit Hours | 2 | Lecture | 1 | Tutorial | 2 | Practical | 0 |
| Course Description: | |||||||||
| The course includes methods of production of Medicinal Plants, Wild plants versus cultivated plants, factors (genetic and ecologic) affecting variability in drug activity, plant growth regulators. The study of storage methods and methods of adultration of medicinal plants. | |||||||||
Pharm-D (Clinical Pharmacy) – (New Bylaw 2019) :
| Required Courses | |||||||||
| Course Title | Human Rights and Fighting Corruption | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGC 101 | Credit Hours | 1 | Lecture | 1 | Tutorial | 0 | Practical | 0 |
| Course description: | |||||||||
| The course provides an introduction to basic human rights philosophy, principles, instruments and institutions, and also an overview of current issues and debates in the medical and pharmaceutical field with focus on the problems specific to our country. This course also aims to explore some aspects of the diverse and increasingly complex body of international law of human rights that has both national and international application. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Medicinal Plants | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGC 102 | Credit Hours | 3 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 1 | Practical | 2 |
| Course description: | |||||||||
| The course provides the students with Classification of living organisms (plant, animal, fungi, protista, eubacteria and archaebacterias). Taxonomic classification of plant kingdom, plant nomenclature (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species). Microscopical study of the cell and the cell wall (prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells) and cell differentiation in different plant organs ( parenchyma, collenchyma, sclerenchyma…..etc). Ergastic cell contents ( reserve food material and active constituents. Plant body cells and tissues ( stem, root, leaves, flowers, seeds, barks and woods). Preparation of crude drug (Collection of medicinal plants, processing of plant material, storage of crude drugs). In addition to study of medicinal leaves concering their morphology, histology, podwer, constituents and uses. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Pharmacognosy I | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGC 201 | Credit Hours | 3 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 1 | Practical | 2 |
| Course description: | |||||||||
| After completion of the course the student have the knowledge and acquires skills that helps her/him to recognize and identify different commercial and pharmaceutical starches, barks, woods, flowers and seeds drugs in entire and powdered forms. The student should recognize the possible ways of adulteration of these drugs when occur in powdered form by the help of microscopical examination and the recommended and specific chemical tests. The subject allows the student to acquire knowledge about the quality control of herbal drugs in particular regards to contamination and ability to differentiate between genuine and adulterated drugs. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Pharmacognosy II | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGC 202 | Credit Hours | 3 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 1 | Practical | 2 |
| Course description: | |||||||||
| Continuation of the course Pharmacognosy I, this course allow the student to acquire the knowledge and skill that helps her/him to recognize and identify, fruits, herbs, subterranean organs, drugs derived from animal origin and unorganized drugs in entire and powder form. The student should recognize the principles of quality control of these drugs including microbiological and other contamination. Also the student should recognize the possible ways of adulteration of these drugs particularly when occur in powdered form by the help of microscopical examination and the recommended and specific chemical tests. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Phytochemistry I | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGC 301 | Credit Hours | 3 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 1 | Practical | 2 |
| Course description: | |||||||||
| The course introduces the student to the biogenetical origin of secondary metabolites, namely; volatile oils, carbohydrates and their derivatives and glycosides. Their general method of isolation, characterization, distribution, chemical structure and physico-chemical properties. The course enables the students to categorize types of secondary metabolites, predict therapeutic and toxic effects based on their chemical structure, propose structure modifications that leads to more effective or less toxic products. Predict the use of natural products for the production of synthetic analogues with similar or more potent pharmacological activity. The course allows student to have the basic methods of extraction, isolation, purification, identification and quantitative analysis of natural products. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Phytochemistry II | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGC 302 | Credit Hours | 3 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 1 | Practical | 2 |
| Department | Pharmacognosy and Natural products | ||||||||
| Course description: | |||||||||
| The course is a continuation of phytochemistry I. It comprises two parts; Part 1 : The study of alkaloids, marine natural products, miscellaneous isoprenoids and bitters. It describes the general methods of isolation and characterization, their natural occurrence, chemical structure and physico-chemical properties and pharmacological activity. The course teaches the student to identify and assay of natural products, in addition to proposing structure modification to increase efficacy or decrease toxicity. Part 2: Principles of chromatography. The student is introduced to the different types of chromatography, scientific terms related to chromatography, factors affecting separation and applications of different chromatographic techniques in analysis of natural products. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Phytotherapy | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGC 501 | Credit Hours | 2 | Lecture | 2 | Tutorial | 1 | Practical | 0 |
| Course description: | |||||||||
| Upon successful completion of this course, the students should be able to know guidelines for prescribing herbal medicinal drugs on the basis of the pharmacological properties of these drugs including therapeutic uses, mechanism of action, dosage, adverse reactions, contraindications & drug interactions. The course also allows students understand pharmacotherapeutic principles applied to the treatment of different diseases, pharmacovigilance and rational use of drugs. Also the student should understand the basis of complementary and alternative medicine with emphasis on herbal remedies, nutritional supplements, homeopathies, aromatherapy & their effect on maintaining optimum health and prevention of chronic diseases. | |||||||||
| Elective Courses | |||||||||
| Course Title | Processing of medicinal plants | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGC E01 | Credit Hours | 2 | Lecture | 1 | Tutorial | 2 | Practical | 0 |
| Course description: | |||||||||
| The course will study the action of herbal drugs in the treatment of different body disorders regarding the adverse effect, contraindication of the used drug and preparation of herbal teas. | |||||||||
| Course Title | Complementary and Alternative Medicine | ||||||||
| Course Code | PGC E02 | Credit Hours | 2 | Lecture | 1 | Tutorial | 2 | Practical | 0 |
| Course description: | |||||||||
| The course includes different types of complementary / alternative medicines, such as herbal medicines, homeopathic drugs, aromatherapy, and naturopathy with other nutritional supplements, energy therapy, hydrotherapy, oxygenation therapy and life style intervention in chronic diseases | |||||||||