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The students are able to identify unknown medicinal plants by microscopic / macroscopic means, and to determine their purity and content. For this purpose compendial methods are applied, therefore they are able to use them in a correct way and to evaluate the obtained results meaningfully.

In the setting of a “test laboratory” already known aspects of “microscopy” and “phytochemistry” are combined in a practically relevant context. This includes the microscopic identification of herbal drugs as well as the assessment of purity and content by diverse methodologies (e.g. titration, chromatography, and spectroscopy).

Laboratory course

Oral examination during course as well as evaluation of rendered results

• Europäisches Arzneibuch
• Österreichisches Arzneibuch
• Mikroskopischer Farbatlas pflanzlicher Drogen (Rahfeld, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg)
• Analytik biogener Arzneistoffe (Adam, Becker; Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart)

Subject to alteration.