how to prepare medicine
2007-01-30 01:33:47 · 4 answers · asked by mac 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
There are many different ways, compounding is probably what you are thinking of, and only few pharmacies do that. They take a powder of the said medicine, and mix it with distilled water, making a solution/compound, and then sell it. Other ways to make "medicine" are all the ways that drug users make them, and I don't have a clue how that is done.
2007-01-30 07:14:20 · answer #1 · answered by gabe_library 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the raw ingredients at hand, drug preparation posed a new set of challenges. First, the ingredients had to be made suitable to be consumed. Practitioners devised various methods to administer medicines - herbs could be infused in hot water, like tea, or smoked, like tobacco. One of the earliest tools for drug preparation, the mortar and pestle, was used to grind up solid substances. These could then be made into pastes - often mixed with honey - which were easier to take. Fundamental techniques of drug preparation, such as distillation, were developed from the 700s by Islamic pioneers of alchemy, and today English is still full of words of Arabic origin such as ‘drug’, ‘alcohol’, ‘alkali’, ‘syrup’ and ‘sugar’.
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2015-09-21 22:11:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pharmacist in truth has 2 purposes: to dispense the wonderful drugs & to establish that the wonderful style of pills/pills has been provided..... Frankly, only one functionality... to fulfill the prescription of a healthcare professional and to realize this wisely and confirm that the chemistry facility stay safely funded.
2016-11-23 13:55:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go and study pharmacy as a University subject.
2007-01-30 03:52:21 · answer #4 · answered by yakkydoc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋