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Medicinal Plants Production - GAF238
Title: Medicinal Plants Production
Guaranteed by: Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Botany (16-16230)
Faculty: Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:written
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:28/14, C+Ex [HS]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (10)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Explanation: (F 3.r.)
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PharmDr. Kateřina Hradiská Breiterová, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The content of the subject stems from the knowledge gained from pharmacognosy. On the examples of several plants shows the components of modern agriculture engineering, agrochemistry, knowledge from plant ecology and phytopathology. Familiarizes students with possibilities and difficulties of cultivation of medicinal plants in bulk production, but also in conditions of patches. The education is divided into lecture part and practical part which takes place in the Garden of Medicinal Plants of Faculty of Pharmacy.
Last update: Hradiská Breiterová Kateřina, PharmDr., Ph.D. (14.02.2025)
Course completion requirements -
The condition for completion of the course is to obtain the credit (obtaining the credit is conditioned by 100% active participation in practical exercises) and the written test.
Last update: Hradiská Breiterová Kateřina, PharmDr., Ph.D. (14.02.2025)
Literature -

Recommended:

  • Ákos Máthé. Medicinal and aromatic plants. : , , s. ISBN .

Last update: Hradiská Breiterová Kateřina, PharmDr., Ph.D. (14.02.2025)
Teaching methods -

The subject consists of lectures (1/3) and practical clases (2/3). The practical clasestkae place on the Botanical garden of medicinal plants set up by Faculty of Pharmacy, Charles University in Hradec Kralove. The student,divided in to small groups, get practical knowladge about principles of cultivation of many medicinal plants, which occur not only in our flora, but also the introduced species. The students participate on the production plants which are directly planting and cultivated for production in the garden area.

Last update: Hradiská Breiterová Kateřina, PharmDr., Ph.D. (14.02.2025)
Syllabus

Lectures

1. Medicinal plants production – introduction
2. Propagation of medicinal plants
3. Nutrition and irrigation of medicinal plants
4. Pedology
5. Pedology II, breeding of medicinal plants
6. Plant diseases
7. Harvest and processing of medicinal plants
8. Ecological agriculture

Last update: Hradiská Breiterová Kateřina, PharmDr., Ph.D. (14.02.2025)
Learning outcomes

After completing the course, students will be able to use the following terms (including their commonly used abbreviations) in the correct context towards the cultivation of medicinal plants (MP): MASP (medicinal, aromatic and spice plants), collection from the wild, cultivation in cultures, MP cultivation centers, crop rotation, sowing, planting, vegetative propagation, Index seminum, macrobiogenic elements and microelements, fertilizers, plant microbiome, drying, drug quality assessment, diseases and pests, pedology, edaphon, soil classification, breeding methods, organic farming, agrotechnics of selected MP species, weed species, permaculture garden.

Learning outcomes:

Based on the acquired knowledge and skills, students will:

• define the meaning of medicinal plant production as a subject

• explain the difference between diurnal and ontogenetic variability

• propose a suitable time for drying the roots, stems and leaves of selected MP and also for selected metabolites (essential oils, glycosides, mucilages and alkaloids)

• propose a suitable temperature and packaging for storing dried drugs

• explain the effect of a lack of macrobiogenic elements on plant growth using examples

• sow medicinal plants (with small, medium and large seeds)

• evaluate and interpret the percentage of seed germination for plants with large seeds

• perform transplantation of MP seedlings

• try out the vegetative method of propagation of MP

• direct sow suitable medicinal plants in a flower bed

• plant medicinal plants in a flower bed

Last update: Hradiská Breiterová Kateřina, PharmDr., Ph.D. (31.03.2025)
 
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