Pharmacognosy Course
This course equips you with essential pharmacognosy skills for pharmacy practice in Zambia. Learn to select safe plants, identify species accurately, perform extractions and standardisation, ensure quality control, determine dosing, and assess safety. Build confidence in evaluating and applying herbal medicines using scientific methods and local plant knowledge.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
certificate valid in your country
What will I learn?
Gain hands-on skills in pharmacognosy to confidently handle medicinal plants for digestive health. Master ethnobotanical selection, safe sourcing, botanical identification, study design, sampling, drying, quality control, phytochemistry, extraction, standardisation, safety, dosing, regulations, and reporting for evidence-based herbal use.
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Develop skills
- Ethnobotanical selection: quickly pick safe, legal, non-endangered medicinal plants.
- Botanical identification: distinguish medicinal plants from toxic look-alikes accurately.
- Pharmacognostic quality control: plan sampling, drying, and testing for herbal materials.
- Extraction and standardisation: choose solvents and markers for consistent potency.
- Safety, dosing, and reporting: calculate doses, identify interactions, and document findings clearly.
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