This year too, the Brera Botanical Garden was the splendid setting to meet the participants in the fourth edition of the advanced course in the Health properties of natural products, which took place entirely online and ended last March.
The professor Mario Dell’Agli, coordinator of the advanced course and member of the Steering Committee of the MOBE (Brera Botanical Garden Museum and Herbarium “Herbarium Universitatis Mediolanensis”) guided the participants of the meeting along the paths of the Garden, telling its history and describing the peculiar botanical and pharmacological aspects of various medicinal plants, such as Common centaury, Nettle, Ginkgo, Purple cornflower e St. John’s wort, already known during the lessons, but also of “dangerous” and toxic plants such as Lily of the Valley, whose leaves can be mistaken for those of Garlic.
Two pleasant afternoons dedicated to science and curiosities; the meeting at the Brera Botanical Garden is a now consolidated appointment for the advanced course, which has its fifth edition scheduled for the next academic year, which will take place from January to March 2025.
The Brera Botanical Garden, managed by the University of Milan, has recently become a functional center of the University and numerous cultural and scientific dissemination initiatives are planned in its spaces.
The activities of the Brera Botanical Garden can be consulted on the institutional website: https://ortibotanici.unimi.it/orto-botanico-di-brera/
