Medicinal plant and simplicia

Subject Code : SFA-218

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Module Name Medicinal plant and simplicia
Module Level, if applicable 1st year Types of teaching and learning Lecture & Group Projects
Code, if applicable SFA-218 Class size 50  &  50
Semester 2nd Semester Attendance time (hours per week per semester) 1,5h  &  1,5h
Person responsible for the module Arde Toga Nugraha, M.Sc.,Apt Forms of active participation Discussion & Report Writing
Lecturer(s) Arde Toga Nugraha, M.Sc.,Apt

Dr. apt. Asih Triastuti, M.Pharm

 Workload Lecture: 1,5 (hour) x 14 (meeting) = 21

Preparation and follow up 2 (hour) x 14 (self-learning) = 42

Preparation and follow up: 2×7 (self-preparation) = 14

Practical: 1.5×2 (meeting) = 3
Language Bilingual Total workload 80 Hours
Relation to curriculum Compulsory course Credit points 2 CU
Requirements according to examination regulations Minimum attendance at lectures is 75% (according to UII regulation). Final score is evaluated based on assignment and reports (40%), mid semester exam (30%), and end semester exam (30%).
Recommended prerequisites- –
Related course Medicinal plant and simplicia laboratory practice
Study and examination requirements and forms of examination Mid-term, final term, assignment and reports

By the end of this course Students are able to:

  • Apply discipline and responsibility during lectures
  • Explain a brief history of medicinal plant in the treatment of diseases, prophetic medicine, the biodiversity of medicinal plants and sources of bioactive material from plants
  • Describe the anatomy, morphology and physiology of medicinal plants
  • Explain the post-harvest process, the factors that affect the simplicia during the post-harvest process, and the appropriate methods of simplicia storage
  • Explain the purposes of quality analysis on simplicia and the application of quality analysis during the evaluation of simplicia as raw material

This course is designed to provide the student with an opportunity to gain natural medicine knowledge anr to explore an area of interest related to medicinal plant biodiversity, anatomy, morphology, physiology, technology and post-harvest processing of medicinal plants.

Text books, slides (power points), video, interactive media

  • Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyya, 2003. The prophetic medicine, Al Mansoura, Egypt.
  • Evans, W.C., 2009. Trease and Evan’s Pharmacognosy. 16th ed. ELBS, London.
  • Jackson, B.P., & Snowdon, D.W., 1990, Atlas of microscopy of medicinal plants, culinary herbs and spices, London, Belhaven Press.
  • Kaufman, P.B., Glimn-Lacy, J., 2006, Botany Illustrated: Introduction to plants, major groups, flowering plant family, Springer Science + Business Media, NY, USA
  • Singh, G. 2010. Plant Systematics. Science Publisher. New Hampshire. USA
  • Heinrich M. Barnes J. Gibbons S. Williamson EM. 2004. Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy. Churchill Livingston. Edinburgh.
  • DepKesRI., 1985. Cara pembuatan simplisia, Indonesia
  • World Health Organization, 1998. Quality Control Methods for Medicinal Plant Materials
  • WHO. 2003. Good agricultural and collection practice (GACP) for medicinal plants, geneva
  • Depkes RI, 2010, Farmakope Herbal