DRUGMEDICINEREMEDY DR SATHEESH M NAIR DEPT OF ORGANON

DRUG-MEDICINE-REMEDY DR. SATHEESH. M NAIR DEPT. OF ORGANON OF MEDICINE SKHMC

DRUG

DRUG • The word drug is derived from the French word “drogue” meaning a dry herb.

DEFINITION • Drug is a therapeutic agent, prepared phamaceutically from standardised drug substance according to the rules and regulations of pharmacopoeia, which is sufficiently capable of affecting the sensations and functions, even the structural change and may be even cause of death, if continued for a sufficient time and dose.

TYPES • Mother tincture(Q) • Mother solution(Q solution • Mother substance(O)

CHARACTER • Knowledge of physical characters of each drug is acquired by comparison of the description of the particular drug with its actual specimen, when particular care should be taken about the character, taste, smell, shape, color, weight etc. of drug.

IMPURITIES • • Imperfect selection Imperfect preservation Imperfect preparation Adulteration

CRUDE DRUGS • Means the commercial forms of drugs taken from the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms are brought to the market and utilized for the purpose of preparing medicines.

NARCOTIC DRUGS • The drugs which produce abnormally deep sleep. They take away the sensibility, sensation, and irritability in their primary action to increase sensibility and irritability in their secondary action even if used in moderate doses, • During drug proving, in case of narcotic drugs, secondary actions to be recorded.

MEDICINE

DEFINITION • When a drug has been potentised homeopathically and proved on healthy human beings in both sexes, all ages and in different constitutions- producing abnormal signs and symptoms(objective and subjective) is called a medicine.

GENUINE MEDICINE • The medicine which has been prepared pharmaceutically, under the guidance of qualified and honest pharmacist, by obeying the rules and regulations of the homoeopathic pharmacopeia, it must posses all the active properties of the drug when it prepared and also capable of curing dynamic disease when it potentised, And also it shows the signs and symptoms which produce previous occasions, when it proved on healthy human beings- it will be said as the genuine medicine.

• Genuine medicines are only the weapons in the hand of the physicians.

APHORISMS • § 19 - curative power of medicine • § 20 - the power of medicine can not seen, only by drug proving. • § 21 - medicines has produce disease producing power and curing power. • § 105 -145

REMEDY

DEFINITION • When a particular medicine is prescribed for a particular diseased condition, according to symptom similarity and when the diseased condition is cured totally, the medicine is called a remedy of that particular case. • When a drug becomes a remedy when it satisfies the law of similars.

SHORT ACTING REMEDY • A remedy whose action lasts for a comparatively short period. • Eg. aconite

LONG ACTING REMEDY • A remedy whose action lasts for a comparatively long period. • Eg. Cal. carb

POLY CHREST REMEDY • A remedy which has produced a wide range of symptoms in the provings and can , therefore, treat a wide ranges of problems. • Eg. lycopodium

APHORISMS • § 21 - when medicines act as remedies, they can only bring their curative property • § 22 - when will a medicine become remedy • § 105 -145