| Course Contents | 
	
	
		| Botanical properties and cultivation methods of plants used for medicine and dyeing, introduction of active ingredients (alkaloid, glycoside etc.) of plants, teaching and use of obtaining methods | 
	
	
		| Weekly Course Content | 
	
	
		| Week | 
		Subject | 
		Learning Activities and Teaching Methods | 
	
	
		
		| 1 | 
		Introduction to the history of herbal medicines. General information about traditional folk medicine and pharmaceutical forms of medicine. | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 2 | 
		Herbal medicine preparation methods; decoction infusion, maceration, tinctures, extracts, syrups, ointments, herbal powder and tablets, medicated oil, poultice and compress | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 3 | 
		Legal regulations on herbal medicines and its importance for monograph, pharmacopeia and pharmacy | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 4 | 
		Secondary metabolites in plants and their properties. | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 5 | 
		Secondary metabolites in plants and their properties. | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 6 | 
		Analysis methods of secondary metabolites. | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 7 | 
		.Antioxidants, antioxidant-containing herbs and antioxidant capacity analysis. | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 8 | 
		mid-term exam | 
		 | 
	
		
		| 9 | 
		Plants with antimicrobial effect. Antimicrobial effect analysis | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 10 | 
		Plant essential oils and their medicinal properties. | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 11 | 
		Systematics of plants used in herbal medicines | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 12 | 
		Botanical features and cultivation of plants used in medicine | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 13 | 
		Botanical features and cultivation of plants used in medicine | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 14 | 
		Botanical features and cultivation of plants used in medicine | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
		
		| 15 | 
		Botanical features and cultivation of plants used in medicine | 
		lecture, question and answer | 
	
	
	
		| 16 | 
		final exam | 
		 | 
	
	
	
		| Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading | 
	
		
		| 1 | 
		Türkiye Bitkileri Geleneksel İlaç Rehberi, Tuzlacı E., İstanbul Tıp Kitabevleri | 
	
		
		| 2 | 
		Tıbbi ve Aromatik Bitkiler Bilimi ve Teknolojisi, Baydar H., Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık | 
	
		
		| Required Course instruments and materials | 
	
	
		| Projector, laptop, vegetable oils, herbal drugs, glass general laboratory equipment. |