Buscador de Personas - SIGEVA - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

The increased consumption of plants and their preparations with therapeutic purposes is a trend very widespread anywhere in the world. The pharmacist is the health professional that has in its duties the knowledge and handling of Medicinal Plants. Nevertheless, related concepts to natural drugs have been restricted in the Pharmacy curriculum to the Pharmacognosy subject, which teaches the vegetal and animal drugs that have been studied scientifically and have been established as official drugs in different Pharmacopeias from the world. Thus, the unofficial medicinal plants, including the native ones, are excluded even though they are commercialized and consumed with therapeutic intent. The National Institute of Medicaments from Argentine (INAME) established the nationwide legal frame for the Vegetal Drugs (VD) and their preparations, which do not fulfill with the requirements to be employed in the elaboration of medicines with high exigencies of quality, security and efficacy, under the name of Phytotherapic Medicines (PM). The objectives of ?Bases for the quality control of vegetal medicinal substances? (BQCVMS, elective subject at the final year of the degree in Pharmacy, Fac. Cs. Químicas, UNC), are to introduce pharmacy students in statutory regulation of PM, provide the necessary tools to guarantee the quality and security of the VD and their preparations, and teach the concepts that allow them, in their professional exercise, to elaborate and dispense PM and to advise on the use of unofficial VD.

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