What kinds of medicines

Drugs, or in the official terminology - drugs, known as substances which are permitted to use for the prevention, diagnosis or treatment of diseases, as well as to prevent pregnancy. Medicines can be obtained from plants, minerals, blood, blood plasma, organs, tissues or animals, as well as methods of chemical synthesis or biological technologies.
Depending on the purpose of the application of drugs may have different dosage forms. Dosage form - easy to apply state of the medicinal product, which provides the necessary therapeutic effect. Depending on the physical condition of divided all medicines in liquid form (eg, tinctures, mixtures, solutions), soft (ointments, pastes, candles), solid (eg, pills, powders, capsules) and gas (aerosols).

The drug is ready for application of the drug measured in some form of medication. It is in the form of medicines medicines sold in pharmacies and are used by doctors to treat patients.

Place of manufacture divided drugs into two groups. The first group includes the so-called offitsinalnye medications that are manufactured to pharmaceutical plants, refineries, factories, microbiological, biotechnological and genetic engineering laboratories, etc. Offitsinalnye products make up the bulk of those present are currently on the market of medicinal forms of tablets, pills, solutions in ampoules, powders in vials, etc. The second group consists of so-called main-line drugs, which are made in pharmacies. Currently, the number of pharmacies, which are allowed to manufacture drugs ( «production Pharmacies»), each year is declining - and consequently reduced the proportion of main drugs, which are present, broths, medicine, powders for ingestion, etc.

Medications and drugs can have multiple names. First, like any chemical, the drug has the chemical name in accordance with the rational chemical nomenclature. Chemical name of drug, usually a very difficult and long, so it is used only to specialists in the field of chemical and pharmaceutical synthesis and analysis. In the medical and pharmaceutical practice, the most applicability Two other names of drugs - generic and international trade (trade).

Homeopathic remedies

A separate category of medicines comprise homeopathic means. Homeopathic medicines - it is one-or multicomponent preparations containing, as a rule, mikrodozy active compounds produced by special technology and designed for oral, injection or local application in the form of various dosage forms. Homeopathic remedies should not be used for the treatment of acute and urgent conditions, and in the treatment of chronic diseases and low-they might be an alternative to traditional drug therapy.

Biologically active additives

It is a special category is biologically active additives (BAA). It is important to remember that the biologically active supplements are not drugs and, therefore, not intended for treatment or prevention of any disease. In accordance with the requirements for their registration significantly reduced compared to the registration of medicines. In most cases, biologically active additives have nutritional value and can be considered as food additives. The majority of biologically active additives actually has a biological activity, but unlike drugs, they do not undergo rigorous experimental and clinical studies to determine their positive and negative sides. Therefore, intensive advertising campaigns of biologically active additives underlined their «absolute security», conducted by some unscrupulous manufacturers, totally unfounded. In most cases, an assessment of the safety of these additives are not carried out, and therefore should be treated with great caution to the biologically active additives with multi-or unspecified (unknown?) Composition.