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"

The contents of this Expert have been developed by the different experts of this course, with a clear purpose: to ensure that our students acquire each and every one of the necessary skills to become true experts in this field. 

A complete and concrete development of knowledge and techniques, created for the pharmacist in order to train him/her for a total quality intervention in phytotherapy"

Module 1. Phytotherapy and Herbal Medicines

1.1. Phytotherapy: Definition and Scope of Application
1.2. Botanical Nomenclature and the Citation of Species in Phytotherapy
1.3. Current Classification of Plant Groups
1.4. Legislation and Registration of Herbal Medicines in Spain
1.5. Regulation of the European Market for Medicinal Herbal Preparations: Legal Regulations and Scope of Application
1.6. Cultivation, Collection, Processing and Preservation of Medicinal Plants
1.7. Plant-Based Drugs: Impact of Drug Recognition on the Quality of Phytotherapeutic Products
1.8. Mushrooms with Medicinal Utility

Module 2. Active Ingredients of the Plants, Pharmaceutical Forms and Galenic Preparations

2.1. Active Ingredients: Main Groups and Properties, as a Basis that Justifies the use of Phytotherapy
2.2. Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, and Sulfocyanogenetic Heterosides and their Therapeutic Application
2.3. Simple Phenols, Coumarins and Lignans and their therapeutic application
2.4. Flavonoids and their Therapeutic Application
2.5. Tannins and Quinones and their Application
2.6. Isoprenoids, Saponins and Cardiotonic Heterosides and their Application
2.7. Resins and their Application
2.8. Alkaloids and their Application
2.9. Magistral Formulation in Phytotherapy
2.10. Other Pharmaceutical Forms in Phytotherapy
2.11. Industrial Processing of Herbal Medicines

Module 3.  Phytotherapy For Cardiovascular And Respiratory Conditions

3.1. Utility of Phytotherapy in the Treatment of Heart Failure
3.2. Phytotherapy in the Treatment of Arterial Hypertension
3.3. Phytotherapy in the Treatment of Hyperlipidemia involved in Cardiovascular Diseases
3.4. Phytotherapy in Venous Insufficiency Disorders
3.5. Phytotherapy in Respiratory Infections
3.6. Phytotherapy in the Treatment of Cough
3.7. Phytotherapy in the Treatment of Allergic Respiratory Processes
3.8. Treatment of Asthma with Active Ingredients Derived from Plants. Antispasmodics
3.9. Phytotherapy and Herbal Active Ingredients in the Treatment of Lung Cancer

A comprehensive teaching program, structured in well-developed teaching units, oriented toward a high impact learning and training"