Department of Pharmaceutical Botany

Department of Pharmaceutical Botany

The Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, one of the departments of pharmacy, is the branch of science that studies medicinal plants, the crude drugs obtained from them and the effects of these drugs. Pharmaceutical Botany is a multidisciplinary field closely related to disciplines such as pharmacognosy, botany, anatomy, physiology, ecology, biochemistry, pharmacology and ethnomedicine. The Department of Pharmaceutical Botany offers a one-semester Pharmaceutical Botany course to pharmacy students.  The research areas of the Department of Pharmaceutical Botany at Ankara Medipol University Faculty of Pharmacy include:  Naming, classification and identification of medicinal plants.  Determination of the biological activities of plants.  Documenting the traditional medicinal uses of plants through ethnobotanical studies and determining the efficacy of plants with ethnobotanical uses using scientific methods.  Investigation of medicinal and poisonous plants from systematic, morphological, anatomical, molecular and chemical perspectives.