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Phytochemistry & Pharmacognosy

Phyto- what? Pharm-what? Yes, yes, sounds strange, but it is so simple: Phytochemistry studies chemicals derived from plants: their biosynthesis, structure and isolation; while Pharmacognosy researches plants as a possible source of drugs.

There are many drugs of plant origin like: caffeine, cytizine, theophylline, scopolamine, papaverine, pilocarpine, atropine or tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Right, the last one was obtained from marijuana.

We would like to invite you to the Department of Pharmacognosy and show you how we work with plant extracts in the laboratory. These include sample preparation, chromatographic separation, essential oil hydrodistillation, and bioactivity testing. You will get to know how simple in some cases, and how laborious in the others it is to obtain the final active molecule from the plant material. We will tell you how you can use medicinal plants at home to enjoy their beneficial effects on human health.