Sunday, 30 October 2011

Homoeopathic Pharmacy

Pharmacy



Pharmacy is the art and science of collecting, combining, preserving, preparing and standardizing drugs and medicines derived from natural and synthetic sources. It also includes compounding and dispensing medicines.
According to ‘Chamber Dictionary’ –“Pharmacy is the art, practice or science of collecting, preparing, preserving and dispensing of medicines”.

Objects of the Homoeopathic pharmacopoeia


1.The object of homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia is to list of remedies used in homoeopathic treatment.
2.Give proper instructions as to their identity and preparation.

3.Pharmacopoeia also describes about drug proving.
4.It also describes the standard methods and gives the standards of purity that has been followed when preparing the medicine.
5.If the drug proving appears to be adequate and demand for the medicine by pharmacists and stroking of the medicines, it may be listed in the homoeopathic pharmacopoeia. 
These are the objects of Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia


History and development of homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia

From the history of pharmacy we came to know that, Hahnemann never wrote any separate book on “Pharmacopoeia”. But he wrote ‘Organon of Medicine’, ‘The Chronic Diseases’ and ‘Materia medica pura’. These books play an important role in writing of Pharmacopoeia. Since 1825, a good number of homoeopathic Pharmacopoeias have been published in different countries, especially in Germany and U.S.A.

The first homoeopathic pharmacopeia was published by Dr. Cral W. Caspari of Leipzing, Germany in 1825.Gradually different homoeopathic establishments or associations published their Pharmacopoeias. They are:

1#German Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia::1825
The first homoeopathic pharmacopoeia was published by Caspari of Leipzing, Germany. He published a, “Homoeopathic and Dispensatorium Fur Artze and Apotheker”, thereby giving the first idea of homoeopathic pharmacopoeias for physician and pharmacists.









2#Brithis Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia::1870
The first edition was published in 1870 by the ‘British Homoeopathic Society’ London, and followed by the publication of 2nd and the 3rd edition in 1876, respectively.



















3#Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of U.S.A::1897
In 1897 came the first pharmacopoeia in U.S.A named ‘Pharmacopoeia of the American Institute of Homoeopathy’,of the said Institute and published by Otis Clop and Son,inc, Agent, Boston, U.S.A.













4#Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India::1971
In India the 1st homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia was published by M Bhattacharyya and Co, Calcutta, in 1893, named ‘Pharmaceutics Manual’. Since then it has run into twelve editions. The current edition was published on 14th Feb, 1980.



5#French Hoeopathic Pharmacopoeia::1897
New edition of FHP has come out. It is an important Pharmacopoeia in the history of Homoeopathy.




Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia



The name pharmacopoeia originates from the two Greek words: ‘Pharmacon’ means a drug; and ‘poieo’ means to make. Pharmacopoeia is the theoretical part of Pharmacy.

The supreme authoritative book published by the authority of government of any country, which deals with the scientific facts and logical attitude of  the rules and regulations of standardization of drug substance, containing directions for collecting drug material from different sources, for preparing, preserving, compounding and combining of various drugs. Besides, it also contains-external applications, prescription writing, posology and monograph of drugs. It is officially published by the authority of government of any country or any medical or pharmaceutical society. A Pharmacopoeia published by such authority is termed as ‘official’.

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