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Research Translation the medicinal and aromatic flora of South Africa),
Through Arts and Science Seoul (Korea) (The application of classic and modern
pharmacognosy in monographing African traditional
The research output of the Unit is often medicines) and Cape Town (South Africa) (Medicinal
communicated to the scientific community through plant research in South Africa – A celebratory
conference presentations and publications. During travelogue).
the reporting period, the Unit Director attended
five conferences and delivered keynote addresses Eleven members of the Unit also presented seven
in Mississippi, (USA) (The medicinal and aromatic oral presentations and four posters at the 23rd
flora of South Africa – the opportunity, progress and International Congress of The International Society
challenges), Balatonalmadi (Hungary) (The value of for Ethnopharmacology and the 2nd International
having a multidisciplinary approach to essential oil Congress of the African Phytomedicine Scientific
research – reflecting on two decades of studying Society (ISE-APSS2024) in Cape Town, South Africa.

Students from The Herbal Drugs Research Unit (TUT) discussing the medicinal properties of indigenous
plants with Prof Alvaro Viljoen.

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