Crude Drug Adulteration

Crude drugs are unprocessed natural drugs that are used for different treatment purposes. As we know that crude drugs are obtained from natural sources so these can easily be adulterated. The crude drug adulteration may be intentionally or unintentionally, whatever the reason may be, the adulteration is not good ethically and scientifically as well.

Handling Of Prescription

In this article, we will discuss the handling of prescriptions but before going to the details of the handling of prescription we will have a look at the definition of prescription.

Essential Oils

Essential oils are hydrophobic aromatic compounds extracted from plants and are volatile in nature. Essential oils contain aroma or essence of the plant from which these are derived.

Pharmaceutics and its Branches

Pharmaceutics is the branch of pharmacy which deals with the conversion of drug molecules into dosage form so that we can use drugs safely and effectively. In simple words, the science of dosage forms is known as Pharmaceutics.

Classification Of Crude Drugs

Crude drugs are those substances that are obtained from natural sources and are used for treatment or prevention of different diseases without chemical modification of these substances. Mean crude drugs are used in natural form without any modification.