HORT/CPSC 180
Spring 2008

This course will examine the use of cultivated and wild plants in human medicines according to Western and Non-Western medical traditions. Topics will include herbal medicine use from ancient times to the present in different human cultures, important medicinal chemicals produced by plants, the different ways in which herbal medicines can be used, the properties of popular medicinal plants, and the legal aspects of medicinal plant regulation.

Course Meeting:    11:00 a.m. MWF in 160 English Building

 Instructor:

Dr. Donald P. Briskin
Professor of Plant Biochemistry/Physiology
Department of Natural Resources & Environmental
Sciences and Department of Plant Biology
380 National Soybean Laboratory
Telephone:  244-1115  (please leave message if not in office.)
Email Address:   dbriskin@uiuc.edu
Office Hours:  Set up by appointment

Text and Readings:

THE HERBAL HANDBOOK:  A User’s Guide to Medical Herbalism
 by David Hoffmann
 Healing Arts Press

Reserve Readings: Copies of Relevant Readings Will Be On Reserve in the Undergraduate Library.
 
LECTURE OUTLINES :  The outline material for each lecture can be downloaded as a PDF file.  You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer to access, read and print out these files.  If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer it is available from the ADOBE website located at: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html. To download lecture materials, select (by clicking on) the item you need and a dialog box will appear asking you if you wish to download  and save the file. Click "Save File" and the file will automatically download onto your computer.  The file can then be opened and printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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History of Western Herbology to Middle Ages
History of Western Herbology from Middle Ages to the Present
Format of Discorides "De Materia Medica"
Properties of the Doshas
Locations of the Doshas in the Body
Ayurvedic Medicinal Plant Classification
Properties of Yin/Yang
Conditions of Yin/Yang Imbalance
Five Element Theory in TCM
Zhang/Fu Organ Theory in TCM
Forms of Qi
Classification of Medicinal Plants in TCM
Medicinal Plant Interactions in TCM Formulations

History of Drug Regulation Laws in the U.S.A.
Summary of DSHEA
Possible Regulatory Systems for Herbal Medicines

Instructions for the short paper writing assignment

 
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