Pharmacy Schools Dedicate New Medicinal Plant Gardens

摘要

In April 2013, the colleges of pharmacy at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and the University of Rhode Island (URI) announced the openings of new medicinal plant garden spaces, harking back to the days when medicinal plant gardens were an essential component of pharmacy education."Medicinal plants and crude drugs used to be part of pharmacy curriculum and [they were] taken out," said Ikhlas Khan, PhD, assistant director of Ole Miss's National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR) and the director of the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Excellence on Botanical Dietary Supplements Research (email, June 26, 2013). "Now [they are] being reintroduced in different ways."