Department undergraduates

Faculty of Pharmacy

Assiut University

Department of Pharmacognosy

The Department offers courses that help students identify medicinal plants in their full form or in the form of powder, as well as their biologically active chemical components such as alkaloids, volatile oils, glycosides, vitamins and salts,  minerals, and the effect of this chemical content in the treatment of diseases, and then the student will study the chemistry of these active constituents and methods of extraction from their natural sources and ways of identifying of the basic blocks forming these active constituents, and also to study their analytical methods. Then in their senior year, the students study the courses of herbal medicine and the qualitative control of herbal medicines using modern chromatographic and spectral methods for the regulation of these drugs.

Courses for Students of Bachelor of Pharmacy Pharm D Program

Credit hours

Course title

Course code

Total

P/T

L

3

1

2

Medicinal Plants

PG 101

3

1

2

Pharmacognosy I

PG 202

3

1

2

Pharmacognosy II

PG 303

3

1

2

Phytochemistry I

PG 504

3

1

2

Phytochemistry II

PG 605

2

1

1

Applied and Forensic Pharmacognosy

PG 706

3

1

2

Phytotherapy and Aromatherapy

PG 907

                         

                   Elective Courses

2

1

1

Biotechnology of Medicinal Plants

PG E08

2

1

1

Complementary and Alternative Medicinal Plants

PG E09

2

1

1

Quality Control of Herbal Drugs

PG E10

* Course description for the following programs: 

  1. Bachelor of Pharmacy Pharm-D program:
  2. Pharmaceutical Sciences Program bylaw 2008 and amended in 2009:

Courses for Students of Bachelor of Pharmacy Pharm D (Clinical Pharmacy) Program

Credit hours

Course title

Course code

Total

P/T

L

3

1

2

Medicinal plants

PG 101

3

1

2

Pharmacognosy I

PG 202

3

1

2

Pharmacognosy II

PG 303

3

1

2

Phytochemistry I

PG 504

3

1

2

Phytochemistry II

PG 605

3

1

2

Phytotherapy

PG 006

                    Elective Courses

2

1

1

Complementary and Alternative Therapies

PG E07

2

1

1

Production and Manufacture of Medicinal Plants

PG E08

2

1

1

Poisonous Plants

PG E09

* Course description for clinical pharmacy programs:

  1. Bachelor of Pharmacy Pharm-D program (clinical pharmacy):
  2. Pharmaceutical Sciences Program Unified bylaw 2018
  3. Pharmaceutical Sciences Program bylaw 2008

:Student activities

Other activities:

Summer training for students in the Department of Pharmacognosy

Summer training certificates to students in the Pharmacognosy Department for the second semester of the academic year 2023-2024