Course Description
This course covers traditional medical systems from a diversity of ancient and modern cultures, with an emphasis on the medicinal plants utilized within these healing traditions. Humans, as well as a number of other species, have utilized plants and other products from nature to treat their physical and spiritual ailments since prehistoric times. In addition to covering medicinal plant species and their known bioactivity, other topics will include traditional diagnostic techniques, complementary healing modalities, beliefs regarding health and illness, treatment and causes of spiritual diseases, food and spices as medicine, and ethical considerations in ethnobotanical research.
Spring 2026
Instructors
Meeting Patterns
Classes Start:
January 12, 2026
Classes End:
April 28, 2026
Location:
02212 Gardner Hall
Class Days:
T H
Class Start Time:
1:30pm
Class End Time:
2:45pm
Class Type:
Lecture
Credits:
3.00
Restrictions:
Prerequisite: (BIO 181 or PB 200 or PB 250) and (Junior or Senior)