Collecting and Conservation of Wild Native Medicinal Plants

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

Collecting and conservation of wild native medicinal plants is an elective course that will help in obtaining wider knowledge related to medicinal plants. The topic covers wild medicinal plants native to Hungary, their morphological description, their occurrence and significance. It describes in detail the methodology and possibilities for collecting wild medicinal plants in nature, and discusses strategies for the conservation of rare and endangered herb species. The course includes a half-day field trip to Pécs-Nagyarpád, where the main focus is on the recognition of native wild medicinal plants in nature. The students can broaden their knowledge related to wild medicinal plants and their application in pharmacist practice.

Lectures

• 1. Importance of wild medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 2. Collection of wild medicinal plants in Hungary; historical overview - Purger Dragica
• 3. Methods of the collection of wild medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 4. Methods of the collection of wild medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 5. National and regional databases of wild medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 6. Collection Calendar - Purger Dragica
• 7. Primary processing of collected medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 8. Primary processing of collected medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 9. General quality requirements - Purger Dragica
• 10. General quality requirements - Purger Dragica
• 11. International conventions and rules - Purger Dragica
• 12. International conventions and rules - Purger Dragica
• 13. Estimating the population size of medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 14. Estimating the population size of medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 15. Endangered, protected and strictly protected native medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 16. Endangered, protected and strictly protected native medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 17. Monitoring populations of threatened species - Purger Dragica
• 18. Monitoring populations of threatened species - Purger Dragica
• 19. Strategies for conservation of endangered medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 20. Strategies for conservation of endangered medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 21. The role of botanical gardens in ex situ preserving of medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 22. The role of botanical gardens in ex situ preserving of medicinal plants - Purger Dragica
• 23. Exam: Written test - Purger Dragica
• 24. Exam: Written test - Purger Dragica

Practices

• 1. General information on plant parts collected - Purger Dragica
• 2. The most important wild native medicinal plants in Hungary, their habitats and distribution - Purger Dragica
• 3. Collecting wild medicinal plants in the field - Purger Dragica
• 4. Collecting wild medicinal plants in the field - Purger Dragica

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Purger D., Filep, R. Papp N, Farkas A. (2021) Medicinal plants. Teaching Supplement for the Pharmacobotany Subject. University of Pécs, Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy, Pécs. p. 216.

Recommended literature

Shi Lin Chen et al. 2016: Conservation and sustainable use of medicinal plants: problems, progress, and prospects. Chin Med 11:37

(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4967523/pdf/13020_2016_Article_108.pdf)

Danna J. Leaman: Sustainable wild collection of medicinal and aromatic plants. Development of an international standard

https://library.wur.nl/frontis/medicinal_aromatic_plants/07_leaman.pdf

Medicinal Plant Specialist Group Species Survival Commission IUCN 2007: International Standard for Sustainable Wild Collection of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (ISSC-MAP) Version 1.0- The World Conservation Union

https://www.bfn.de/fileadmin/MDB/documents/service/skript195.pdf

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Active participation.

Mid-term exams

Written test.

Making up for missed classes

Upon individual agreement. Field practices cannot be missed or made up for.

Exam topics/questions

1. Importance of wild medicinal plants

2. Collection of wild medicinal plants

3. Methods of the collection of wild medicinal plants

4. The most important wild native medicinal plants in Hungary

5. Collecting wild medicinal plants in the field

6. Collection Calendar

7. Primary processing of collected medicinal plants

8. General quality requirements

9. International conventions and rules

10. Estimating the population size of medicinal plants

11. Endangered, protected and strictly protected native medicinal plants

12. Monitoring populations of threatened species

13. Strategies for the conservation of endangered medicinal plants

14. The role of botanical gardens in ex-situ preserving of medicinal plants

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Purger Dragica