Provides expert advice on the use of phytotherapy in cardiovascular conditions with the security of acting with the support of the latest scientific advances on the international scene. An essential course for the pharmacy professional"

There is now a scientific basis supporting the efficacy of many phytotherapeutic products for certain indications. The place that phytotherapy should occupy in therapeutics should be that for which it has demonstrated its usefulness and safety.

Efficacy is achieved only with the proper use of phytotherapeutic preparations, both in terms of indications and form of administration.

This program offers a current vision of Phytotherapy and its application in the health field, including the latest contributions and advances. The contents are guaranteed by the teaching staff involved in the Expert, since in one way or another they all work in the field of phytotherapy or are related to it. Thus, the student will learn based on the experience of the teachers and experience evidence-based medicine, which results in the student's training to be more effective and accurate. On the one hand, the different university training programs generally suffer from a deep and profound lack of

continuously updated training in Phytotherapy, and on the other hand that current health trends are leaning towards the use of safe and effective natural remedies, it is necessary to be able to offer the student the possibility of expanding their knowledge

and therapeutic skills with a greater specialization in the use of medicinal plants, from the professional and academic perspective necessary to adequately face their future in this field.

Increase your competences in the approach to Phytotherapy of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Conditions through this program"

This postgraduate diploma in Phytotherapy For Cardiovascular And Respiratory Conditions offers you the characteristics of a high level scientific, teaching and technological course.  These are some of its most notable features:

• Latest technology in online teaching software
• Highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Self-regulating learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course

Include phytotherapy among your tools in the field and improve your patient care with new ways and alternatives for treatment and prevention"

Our teaching staff is made up of practicing specialists. In this way, we ensure that we provide you with the training update we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of doctors trained and experienced in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will bring their practical knowledge derived from their own experience to the course: one of the differential qualities of this training.

This mastery of the subject matter is complemented by the effectiveness of this expert's methodological design. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of e-learning experts, it integrates the latest advances in educational technology. This way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need in your training. 

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use telepractice:  with the help of an innovative interactive video system, and learning from an expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were actually dealing with the scenario you are learning about. A concept that will allow you to integrate and fix learning in a more realistic and permanent way.

Our innovative telepractice concept will give you the opportunity to learn through an immersive experience, which will provide you with a faster integration and a much more realistic view of the contents: “learning from an expert”

With a methodological design based on proven teaching techniques, this Expert will take you through different teaching approaches to allow you to learn in a dynamic and effective way"

This Expert will allow you to define the limits of the use of phytotherapy to be able to manage it safely with the patient, so that you can make the appropriate decisions to use it preventively and therapeutically.

The objective of this training is to offer the pharmacy professional a compendium of knowledge focused on the practice that will allow him/her to support, from phytotherapy, the well-being of patients with cardiovascular and respiratory conditions"

General Objectives

• Define the therapeutic limits of Phytotherapy and identify the cases in which it can be used safely
• Describe the use of Phytotherapy oriented to the satisfaction of the needs derived from the patient's health problems and the prevention of complications, guaranteeing a safe and quality practice
• Solve cases related to the field of phytotherapy
• Explain the use and indication of medical devices, food supplements and/or drugs, assessing the expected benefits and associated risks
• Apply theoretical knowledge in daily practice

Specific Objectives

• Define what a drug is and distinguish it from an active ingredient
• Explain the protocols for drug recognition
• Explain techniques for the cultivation, collection, processing and conservation of medicinal plants
• Identify botanical nomenclature and species citation
• Classify plant groups according to phylogenetic systematics (APG, 2009)
• Define the medicinal utility of mushrooms
• Explain the legislation and regulation in relation to Phytotherapy
• Explain the application of the magistral formulation in Phytotherapy
• Explain the industrial processing of herbal medicines
• Define the main chemical groups of active ingredients, which are responsible for the activity of drugs and by extension of plants
• Define the therapeutic application of phenols, flavonoids, tannins, isoprenoids, resins, alkaloids and other products
• Describe the pharmaceutical forms used in Phytotherapy
• Elaborate and select the most appropriate form according to the condition and treatment
• Define the usefulness of Phytotherapy in the treatment of heart failure
• Define the usefulness of Phytotherapy in the treatment of arterial hypertension
• Define the usefulness of Phytotherapy in the treatment of venous insufficiency
• Define the usefulness of Phytotherapy in the treatment of cough
• Describe Phytotherapeutic treatments and therapeutic limits in cardiovascular conditions
• Describe the Phytotherapeutic treatments and therapeutic limits in respiratory system disorders
• Define the usefulness of Phytotherapy in the treatment of allergic respiratory processes

Advances in Phytotherapy: the basis of health that only the most updated professional will be able to offer to his patients"