Pharmaceutical Phytobar Invites Students of ASU

At the Department of Secondary Professional Education of Astrakhan State University, future pharmacists have developed a technology to manufacture herbal drinks from local raw materials. The herb infusions made of Astrakhan region’s medicinal plants became a base for useful cocktails that could be produced at an industrial facility in large numbers.

The project was presented at the 7th Festival of Science of Southern Russia, which took place last autumn in Rostov-on-Don; not long ago, our pharmaceutical bar treated the participants of the regional event “Hunting a Job”.

Realizing this project, our students learnt that our region has a real potential to develop its phytotherapeutic service. A wide range of medicinal vegetation resources and over 100 medicinal plants permitted for legal application provide real opportunities to develop new preparations based on those plants; such preparations would be available for many customers thanks to their reasonable prices.

According to Oxana Udalova, the project co-supervisor and Head of the Section of Pharmacy & Veterinary at our Department of Secondary Professional Education, a whole range of infusions has been developed. Each of those infusions has unique medicinal properties thanks to a particular combination of herbs. Our students’ development can be applied to treat chronical diseases as an alternative to synthetic preparations. Medicinal plants give fewer side effects; they cause allergy more rarely; they do not cause vitamin deficiency, since they provide the best combination of natural vitamins for human health. The infusions restore the natural intestinal microflora and contribute to treatment of dysbacteriosis.

Phytotherapy has an outstanding potential: almost any plant has a wide range of medicinal properties. Students of ASU provide that researches of Astrakhan’s herbs and search for new medicinal forms based on them are indeed viable.