Welcome to BIO 368 - Medical Botany
at Wilkes University

Course instructor: Dr. Kenneth M. Klemow

Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) provides the heart medication digitalis
(Image obtained from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Digitalis-stora_hultrum.sweden-25.jpg)

General information	Offered during the summer of odd-numbered years Three credits Open to upperclass students, particularly those majoring in biology Satisfies the Botanical distribution area within the biology major Course meets for five weeks; each week has four two-hour lectures. Prerequisites include BIO 121-122 (Principles of Modern Biology I & II), BIO 225 (Population and Evolution Biology), and BIO 226 (Cellular and Molecular Biology); or permission of the instructor; or permission of the instructor. CHM 231-232 is strongly suggested.
Major topics	Essential botanical concepts Historical and cultural aspects of plants and medicine Ailments caused by plants Therapeutic uses of plants Psychoactive plants
Links to student essays	Click the link to the left to see a list of essays prepared by students in the BIO 368 course. Each essay is a condensed summary of recent scientific information concerning plant species of medical importance. Many are heavily cited in online and published articles.
Announcements	Enevelopes containing your final exams, papers, and grades are available in the Biology Office. Please pick up your envelope.

And a few links concerning poisonous plants

(A listing should not be viewed as providing any kind of endorsement of their products.):

This page posted and maintained by Kenneth M. Klemow, Ph.D., Biology Program, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18766. Phone: (570) 408-4758, FAX: (570) 408-7862, email: kklemow@wilkes.edu.