Plantas Medicinais

Identify the main medicinal plants of the Portuguese and World´s flora with therapeutic role.

Understand the importance of medicinal plants and its active principles in the illness treatments

Recognize the role of plant biotechnology in the production and maximization of active principles.

Identify the main threats to medicinal plants – from habitat destruction to the non-selective recollection.

Recognize the importance of the world trade of medicinal plants and the socio- economic implications in several world areas.

Demonstrate the linkages between botany/ethnobotany, phytochemistry, and human health.