Pharmacy
Homoeopathic pharmacy deals with the art and science of collecting, compounding, combining, preparing, preserving, and standardizing drugs and medicines according to the Homoeopathic principle; and also dispensing medicines or remedies according to the physician's prescriptions, which are used in Homoeopathic practice.
The process of collection, compounding, standardizing of substance, and the whole process is wonderfully carried out and is given in the best Homoeopathic pharmacy books.
For the sole purpose of standardization, apart from Homoeopathic pharmacy, Homoeopathic pharmacopoeia was made.
A Homoeopathic pharmacopoeia is the supreme (standard) authoritative book, published by the authority of the government of any country, which deals with the scientific facts and logical attitude of the rules and regulations of standardization of drug substances, containing directions for collecting drug materials from different sources, compounding, combining, preparing, preserving, and standardizing drugs.
The Sources of drugs used in homoeopathic practice are -
Vegetable kingdom
Animal kingdom - Ophidia and lacs (milk and milk products)
The mineral kingdom also includes Biochemics and biochemistry
Nosodes - obtained from diseased tissue and secretions explained by Nayak Vranasi Roja in his Pharmacy book on bowel nosodes.
Sarcodes - obtained from healthy tissues and secretions
Imponderabilia - Immaterial dynamic energy sources.
These are all explained simply in the Homoeopathic pharmacy textbooks available online.
Apart from the production of medicines, homoeopathic pharmacy also deals with the study of potencies and doses known as posology.
Some of the best authors of Homoeopathic pharmacy books are M K Sahani, N K Banerjee, and RT Mahajan, also as a compilation of solved pharmacy papers Dr. Subrata K Banerjee has compiled an informative pharmacy book.
Different potencies are used in the homoeopathic system of medicines, the most commonly used are the mother tinctures, 1X, 3X, 6X, 30C, 200C, 1M, 10M, 50M, and LM.
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