Even today, nature is a world to which man draws heavily not only to heal himself but also to follow a healthy and balanced diet: just think of organic diets or “zero kilometers” products and phytoalimurgy or rediscovery and use of wild plants as real foods to be consumed following ancient recipes.

Herbal remedies, alternative medicine, and homeopathy are now back in fashion, but they have their roots in very distant times when the only treatments were related to the use of medicinal plants, mixed with religious beliefs or particular rituals.

The vast cultural, historical, anthropological, ethnobotanical heritage is the subject of the course which also aims at a workshop experience aimed at knowing the aspects of this.