2006-12-04 04:01:17 · 7 answers · asked by Swami Viswabodha 1 in Health ➔ Alternative Medicine
Alcohol is second only to water in importance as a solvent in medicine and is used particularly to extract active ingredients from inert parts of crude drugs. This concentrates the medicinally active ingredients and makes the medicine easier to dispense and consume while also improving its absorption. It also acts as a preservative by preventing hydrolysis and inhibiting fermentation that would occur if water was used alone.
2006-12-04 13:42:28 · answer #1 · answered by tillah519 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alcohol is a drug that is absorbed into the bloodstream from the stomach and small intestine, also is used to calim and speed up the healhing process.
2006-12-06 19:13:39 · answer #2 · answered by James J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would think it is that alcohol depresses the central nervous system,,,,,,,,,so in the case of say , cough medicine, it helps the body/muscles relax ,,,,,dulls them
2006-12-04 12:04:18 · answer #3 · answered by dlin333 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
increasing the appetite
increase solubility of the actual drug
increase absorption in the body
2006-12-04 13:08:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually it speeds up delivery into the bloodstream.
2006-12-04 12:02:44 · answer #5 · answered by c.arsenault 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TCM would use as
http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/pdf/12062006.pdf
2006-12-05 04:24:09 · answer #6 · answered by tcmrose l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cleans the blood
2006-12-04 12:06:42 · answer #7 · answered by JB 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋