"Historical aspects in the disciplines of pharmacognosy and chemistry of medicinal plants; databases and literature survey on medicinal plants; macroscopic and microscopic characterizations of medicinal plants and crude drugs, chemical constituents and related pharmacological activities of potential medicinal plants and natural products for treatments of diseases in cardiovascular, renal, nervous, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine and autacoid systems, infectious, skin diseases, AIDS and cancers; laboratory on case studies and discussions on the usage of medicinal plants and herbal products for the treatment of the diseases mentioned above"