Pharmacy tinctures

Seeking alcohol, the victims had broken into the prison pharmacy, where they found a bottle of clear fluid that appeared to be just what they were seeking. Eagerly, they downed the contents. Unfortunately, the tincture was not merely alcohol, but contained a hefty dose of atropine. An hour later, two of them were... 

A. It is confusing because the term is often used to refer to various preparations derived from Salvia. Technically, in pharmacy and medicine the dictionary definition of an extract is a solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug. There is also such a thing as a fluid extract (or tincture), which is a concentrated liquid preparation containing a definite proportion of the active principles of a medicinal substance. The solvent usually used is ethyl alcohol or a mixture of ethyl alcohol and water. However various Salvia preparations are often referred to (loosely) as extracts. Q. What are the advantages of using extracts . 

Touting it as a nerve tonic, doctors began to prescribe tincture of marijuana for a variety of conditions. However, pharmacies posted a warning that large doses of this medicinal remedy were dangerous and considered narcotic (addictive). In addition, physicians found that cannabis stimulated the appetite. By 1887, dentists found hemp to be an excellent topical anesthetic for performing dental procedures on their patients. Cannabis was also found to be a powerful disinfectant. 

Eventually it became clear that the syndrome was associated with the use of an extract of Jamaica ginger, normally sold for medicinal purposes. Remedies like this were popular at the time and some of them were well known, for example the Vegetable Compound of Lydia Pinkham ( Lily the Pink). The ginger was dissolved in up to 90 per cent alcohol to produce a syrup or tincture (for example, Tinctura Zingiberis was 90 per cent alcohol). A few drops in water would usually be taken, and the extract was sold in pharmacies in 2 oz bottles. Popularly known as Jake , the remedy had been in use since the nineteenth century for the treatment of minor ailments such as colds, period pains, headaches, and flatulence and to aid digestion. ... 

Pellets Small spheres of sucrose saturated with an alcoholic tincture, primarily used in homeopathic medicine. Pellets are made in different sizes, designated according to the diameter of ten pellets measured in millimeters. Remington s Practice of Pharmacy (1926) states that pellets should be made of the purest materials, should be perfectly white and odorless and able to withstand all the tests prescribed for sucrose or cane sugar (also see Globules)P ... 

Alcohol is used in the practice of pharmacy for the preparation of spirits, tinctures, and ITuidextraets. Spirits arc preparations containing ethanol as the sole. solvent, whercas tinctures are hydroalcoholic mixtures. Many ITuidextraets contain alcohol as a cosolvent. 

Echinacea is sold as a dietary supplement in the United States and as natural health products in Canada, while in Germany and many European countries, Echinacea products are sold as drugs in pharmacies (Bauer, 2000). There are a number of products on the market, which include dried herbal and root, alcohol tinctures and extracts, and expressed juice products, thus, standardization would be a difficult task. However, regulation would be less difficult because all of these products would fall under a dietary supplements category. 

Besides conceptual progresses, the formal evolution in the concept of medicines was based on the radical transformation of the nature of medicines. One of the theorists of this trend, Charles Louis Cadet de Gassicourt, reported in the inaugural issue of the Bulletin de Pharmacie (1809) that the use of complex preparations had to be withdrawn in favor of pure substances. Pharmacist and physicians had, first, to classify drugs and their use. This trend was much more convenient with pure substances. Between 1815 and 1820, the first active principles were isolated from plants. At that time, a new era in pharmaceutical chemistry opened. Hereafter, drug activity would not depend on the quality of extracts or tinctures and their inherent variability in active principles. The only variability acceptable in therapeutics would be the patient himself. 

Pansa described his text as a city, court, and house apothecary in which one could learn about the types of medicines that should properly constitute municipal, princely, and noble pharmacies. In addition, he intended to make known to persons of wealth the latest, most valuable medicines, especially those prepared by chemists. The medicines described for this section of society are of the watery sort, that is, distilled waters, spirits, and oils, as well as balsams, juices, tinctures, extracts, and essences. For household use, Pansa added a poor man s treasury, a list of medicines for the common man which requires very httle or no cost and whose ingredients were available to anyone and could be used to combat... 

Keep tincture of iodine in original container purchased at pharmacy. 

Iodine may be purchased from a pharmacy. The tincture of iodine sold in the pharmacy is typically a 4.4% solution, which should be diluted for use in the classroom. (The iodine labeled "decolorized will not work as an indicator.)... 

Drugs.—Aftor all the references we have made to tho work of the chemist in industry, we do not need to labour the distinction between the man who practises chemistry and the man who practises pharmacy. Tho latter has to depend on the former for many of tho materials- he employs in dispensing, or tho physician may prescribe with very uncertain results, and the patient perish, or, in any caso, pay to no purpose. The subject of drugs and pharma-couticals, with all its ramifications into the substances compounded into medicines of all kinds, pills, powders, ointments, lotions, tinctures, and so forth, is too extensive for us to treat adequately, and we can only deal with tho subject by indicating a few developments in this important branch of industry. 

Nasal sprays are excellent for helping with the onset of upper respiratory or sinus infections. Simply take an herbal tincture and place up to 10 drops or so in a nasal spray bottle (available from pharmacies). Add pure water and spray up nostrils as often as needed. Two drops each of the essential oils of eucalyptus, juniper, sage, and rosemary may be substituted for the tinctures. 

In 1938, N. A. Ismailov and M. S. Shraiber [313] described the basic principle of the procedure in an article entitled Analysis by Drop-chromatography and its Application in Pharmacy . They applied the method to the separation and characterisation of extracts of medicinal plants (tinctures of the Soviet Pharmacopoeia VII). 

Pachaly, P. (1983). Thin Layer Chromatography in the Pharmacy Rapid and Simple Identification of Common Pharmaceutical Drugs, Extracts and Tinctures, 2nd ed. Wis-senschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart. 

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