Sunday, 30 October 2011

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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