Homeopathy Pharmacology
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Quality standards for herbal and homeopathy medicines in India
The department of Ayush under the health ministry has introduced a voluntary quality certification scheme to ensure efficacy of herbal products based on the Indian systems of medicines including ayurveda, unani, siddha as well as medicines belonging to homeopathy, reports said. The Department of Ayush (Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and homeopathy)... -
THE DRUGS AND COSMETICS ACT, 1940 (INDIA)
CHAPTER I-INTRODUCTORY 1. Short title, extent and commencement. – (1) This Act may be called the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force at once; but Chapter III shall take effect only from such date as the Central... -
THE DRUGS AND MAGIC REMEDIES (OBJECTIONABLE ADVERTISEMENTS) ACT, 1954
An Act to control the advertisement of drugs in certain cases, to prohibit the advertisement for certain purposes of remedies alleged to possess magic qualities and to provide for matters connected therewith. BE it enacted by Parliament as follows:- 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 1. (1)Short title, extent and... -
Homeopathy Pharmacy – An Introduction
Pharmacy is the art and science of collecting, combining, preserving, preparing and standardising drugs and medicines. It also includes compounding and dispensing of the medicines. The word ‘Pharmacy’ also implies the place, where the medicines are made and distributed. Homoeopathic Pharmacy is the art and science of collecting, compounding, combining,... -
Collection of Drug Substances
Though the aphorism of the Organon of Medicine and its certain portion are not directly connected with the process of collection, yet the advices given by Hahnemann forms the fundamentals of preparing a drug, in which the process of collecting a drug substance is an important part for the genuineness... -
Preservation of Homeopathic Drug Substances
PRESERVATION OF DRUGS: There are specific directions for the preservation of homoeopathic drug substances in the monographs of the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India and other Pharmacopoeias but the general rules are: (1) A container or jar should be properly labelled while preserving a drug in it. (2). All substances should... -
Preparation of Drugs & Homeopathic Scales of Dilution
Introduction – There are three essential processes involved in preparation of remedies: (a) Serial dilution, (b) Succussion, (c) Trituration. Dilution is the means by which we reduce the toxicity of the original crude drug. Serial dilution means that each dilution is prepared from the dilution that immediately preceded it. Succussion... -
Homeopathic Vehicles
The term ‘vehicle’ implies, “Means of conveyance or transmission”, In Homeopathy vehicle is a substance, in which medicines are prepared or mixed and given for their internal administrations either by oral or olfaction method and external application for medications. These substances are comparatively inert as such taken as a means... -
Drug Administration
In Homoeopathy mode of administration is special and is based on the following guidelines given in the Organon of Medicine. (1) Medicines are given by oral and olfaction method. (2) ‘In no case it is requisite to administer more than one single, simple medicine at one time’ (See 272, 5th...
