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Dental drops are usually officinal and are prescribed in a short form.
Tinctures – tincturae
Tincture is an alcoholic or hydroalcoholic solution prepared from animal or
vegetable drugs or from chemical substances. Tinctures usually have some colour.
They are officinal drug forms.
When some tincture is prescribed, the word Recipe is followed by the name
of a dosage form (that is: Tincturae) and then by the name of a plant and total
amount in ml. When alcoholic tincture is prescribed, the word spirituosae is not
written. But if ether tincture is prescribed, the word aethereae should be written.
Extracts – extracta
Extract is a concentrated preparation of a vegetable or animal drug obtained
by removing the active constituents therefrom with a suitable menstruum,
evaporating all or nearly all the solvent and adjusting the residual mass or powder to
a prescribed standard.
According to the extractor all extracts are divided into:
extracta aquosa (water extracts);
extracta oleosa (oil extracts);
extracta spirituosa (spirituous, alcoholic extracts);
extracta aetherea (ethereous extracts).
NB! Only one etherous extract is used: Extractum Filicis maris aethereum.
According to their consistency extracts are divided into: extracta fluida
(fluid), spissa (thickened), sicca (dry), that is they are prepared in three forms:
semiliquid or of syrupy consistency, pilular or solid, and as dry powder.
Extracts are prescribed in the same way as tinctures, but their consistency
should be indicated.
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