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Curriculum Pt 1 |
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8 hours will be dedicated to the basic phytochemistry of all embryonic plant tissue and how these phytochemicals affect the human body and their influences on blood chemistry. Embryonic genetic information of the future plant. This includes their role in Effective and Total Detoxification and Apoptosis regulation and lowering ROS reactive oxygen species. The subject of pharmacognosy (from the Greek words pharmacon = drug and gnosia = knowledge) and phytochemistry (from the Greek words phyton = plant and chemeia = chemistry) deals with the knowledge of natural products from plant origin exhibiting bioactivity. Pharmacognosy itself is generally regarded as the oldest of the pharmaceutical sciences and, since prehistoric times, the pharmacognost has been the person whose role it was in the society to identify crude drug materials, to assure the absence of adulteration and to diagnose as well as dispense an appropriate regimen. Nowadays, approximately 25% of prescription drugs contain a plant-derived natural product, but in China, for example, about 8,000 plants species are utilized as medicinal agents. On the other hand, only about 5% of all plants (ca. 300,000 plant species known today) have been investigated for the presence of pharmacologically active phytochemical constituents. Modern phytochemistry constitutes an important area for pursuit as physiologically or biologically active factors. It is a highly interdisciplinary science, encompassing a broad range of studies involving biologically active principles obtained from plants. Fundamental to all of the phytochemical work is collaboration. The days of working as an individual scientist in this field have ended, since no single person has all of the necessary skills to be successful. Therefore, the forming of interdisciplinary and international research groups is becoming a very fundamental aspect in sharing such knowledge.
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