BOTN 204 — Plants and Health
Plant and Environmental Biology · University of Ghana
A theoretical and practical study of medicinal, psychoactive, poisonous and allergic plants. Why the study of medicinal plants. Description and uses of some selected plant species. Preparations of medicinal plants for the treatment of specific diseases. General treatment of the importance of secondary plant metabolites: alkaloids and polyphenolic compounds, with examples from common medicinal plants. Elementary treatment of the effects of caffeine, ephedrine and cocaine on the central nervous system. Mention of free radicals and antioxidant properties of medicinal plants. Brief treatment of each of the following: poisonous plants in the home, plant causing mechanical injury, insecticides from plants, allergy and the immune system.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 200
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- ABCS 202 — Introductory Cell Biology and Genetics
- BOTN 203 — Plants and Civilization
- BIOL 201 — Introductory Plant Morphology
- BIOL 315 — Principles of Genetics
- BIOL 318 — Aquatic Biology
- BOTN 310 — Language for Scientists I
- BOTN 311 — Vegetative Anatomy of Seed Plants
- BOTN 312 — Whole Plant Physiology
- BOTN 313 — Phycology
- BOTN 314 — Taxonomy and Evolution of Seed Plants
- BOTN 316 — Plant Ecology of West Africa
- BOTN 317 — Biometry I
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).