About this Course
Course Description
Pharmacognosy massive open online course (MOOC) is the new additional dimension of education in the field of herbal medicines or crude drugs produced from natural sources such as plants, microbes, and animals. It includes analysis of their biological, chemical, biochemical, and physical properties. This course will allow to study online contents related to natural drugs and their knowledge around the world. The development process of this MOOC involved four stages: preproduction, production, postproduction and maintenance. Technology/tools used for development of this MOOC are YouTube, Canva, PowerPoint, Genially, Padlet for communication, uFuture and ScienceDirect for research articles. The novelty of this course is it Includes examples of drugs originated form Malaysian natural resources. Include common herbs used in Malaysian for communicable and noncommunicable disease (NCD). Include Malaysian herbal monograph development and challenges. The first part reviews the quality and safety aspects of plant crude drugs as well as the registration aspects of traditional medicines. The second part reviews the main classes of phytochemicals, namely carbohydrates, lipids, phenolics, terpenes and alkaloids. Learning process includes: Video lectures and reading research articles and contents from text books. This course will help them to understand herbs, and their science, classification of medicinal plants, phytochemistry, carbohydrates, lipids, terpenes, polyphenols, alkaloids, pharmacology, toxicity, formulations and preparations of herbal medicines. How herbs influence our physiology and can be helpful against several disorders. Relations between phytotherapy and the elderly, phytotherapy and children, understanding herbal Action, and understanding the Materia medica. The recognition of medicinal plants, identification of adulteration and contamination. Ethnobotany & Ethnopharmacology in drug discovery process
Course Learning Outcomes
1 ) Perform chromatographic-based experiments to extract drugs from natural source.
2 ) Illustrate the concept, principle of normalization and the quality control methods associated with drugs of natural origin.
3 ) Classify drug from natural origin and their supply, cultivation, collection, storage along with their special conditions.
Course Details
STATUS : Open DURATION : FLEXIBLE EFFORT : 3 hours per week MODE : 100% Online COURSE LEVEL : Beginner LANGUAGE : English CLUSTER : Science & Technology ( ST )
