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Pharmaconomy definition
Subjects dealing with routes or channels of administration of drugs and medicines
Routes of administration aphorisms and tell types of routes
285-286 aphorisms
1) By oral route
2) By olfaction
3) application on skin
4) others :eye ear
Drug definition- it is a therapeutic agent prepared pharmaceutically from standardized drug substance a/c to rules & regulations of pharmacopeia,
Which is sufficiently 🧢able of affecting vitality of living organism by altering sensations & functions, even the structural change may be cause of death if continued for sufficient tym & dose
Types of drugs 3
Mother tinctures
Mother solution
Mother substance
Pharmacopollaxy
Repetition of doses or medicamental repetition
Repetition
Minute yet powerful dose, of best selected medicine ,should be repeated, at suitable interval
Factors responsible for repetition of doses
1) condition & progress of patient
2) nature of disease
3) nature of remedy
Magma or pulp
Thick residue of soft doughy mass ( molten mass ) resulting from expression or extraction of fluid part of pounded fresh plant
Oil of wintergreen source
గౌల్ తెరియ ప్రగ్రన్ తిసమ
Oil distilled from fresh plant Gaul-theria fragran-tissima
Wintergreen oil uses
Gout or Rheumatism
Pruritus / itchy skin
Sciatica
Epididymitis
Characters of wintergreen oil 3
Colour less
Strong Odour
Pungent smell
Decantation definition
Process of slowly & carefully pouring out liquids, from one vessel to another without disturbing the sediments ,that have been accumulated at bottom of liquid.
Uses of decantation
This method is used in cases of mother tincture or solution or other liquid preparation, for making them bright 🔆 by removing insoluble solid contents
Active principles or resinoids
Precipitates in powdered form obtained by mixing a strong alcoholic mother tincture of given plant with 3-4 times of water.all alcoholic substances are precipitated, these r collected dried and pulverised know as resinoids
Examples of resinoids
Aconitin - aconitum napellus
Atropin - belladona
Bryonin- bryonia alba
Morphin - opium
Gelsemin- gelsemium sem- per-virens