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DRUG REGISTRATION GUIDANCE DOCUMENT (DRGD) - BPFK

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Drug Registration Guidance Document (<strong>DRGD</strong>)characterization in the pharmacopoeia in official use (or in other officially recognizeddocuments) for tablets. Homeopathic medicines in tablet form are either prepared byimpregnation of preformed tablets or by compression of triturations with the vehicle. Themost commonly used liquid homeopathic medicines are either alcoholic solutions or oralliquids.Excipient: Substance needed for manufacturing a dosage form (used afterpotentisation) such as wheat starch and magnesium stearate for tablets. It may alsorepresent the substance of the dosage form.Homeopath: A qualified provider (practitioner) of homeopathic treatment.Homeopathic medicines: Any medicine prepared in accordance with a homeopathicmanufacturing procedure described by a pharmacopoeia in official use or other officiallyrecognized documents. A homeopathic medicine may contain a number of homeopathicpreparations.Homeopathy: Classical homeopathy is a system of medicine using preparations ofsubstances whose effects, when administered to healthy subjects, correspond to themanifestations of the disorder in the individual patients.Mother tincture (also called tincture): The initial homeopathic preparation made fromsource material that can be further potentised (also called “liquid stock”), sometimesused as homeopathic medicines, is regarded as the most concentrated form of afinished homeopathic medicine. Mother tinctures are obtained classically by macerationor percolation (sometimes also by digestion, infusion, decoction or fermentation)techniques from source materials according to a procedure prescribed by a recognizedhomeopathic pharmacopoeia. Sometimes a mother tincture corresponds to the firstdecimal dilution, “1D” or “1X” (10-1), mostly when dry plant material is used as startingmaterial.Nosodes: Homeopathic medicines prepared from disease products from humans oranimals; from pathogenic organisms or their metabolic products; or from decompositionproducts of animal organs.Potency: The denominated degree of serial trituration or dilution and succession that isreached for each homeopathic medicine. The degrees of dilution or potencies areNational Pharmaceutical Control BureauFirst Edition, January 201314

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