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Preservation of Homeopathic Drug Substances |
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PRESERVATION OF MOTHER PREPARATIONS (1) The mother trnctures should be kept at an even temperature of about 60 f (15.6"C)-Lawrence Ashwell. (2) They should be stored in new well. cleansed, colourless, neutral flint glass bottles. (3) Pyrex, or other anticorrosive glass bottles with glass stoppers should be used for storing acid or caustic preparations. (4) Medicines which are not affected by sunlight, as such, or glass bottles covered wIth a solution of asphalum or black varnish, should be used. (5) Dr. Burt advises to avoid blue-coloured bottle, as they have certain dynamic effects injurious to medicines. (6) Yellow or amber-coloured bottles should not be used, as even non-medicinal substances contained in these bottles exposed to sunlight for sometime. acquire medicinal viruces. (7) They should be stored in a dry, cool place in airtight well closed glass bott es. (8) Avoid too much heat or cold. Some mother tinctures may become turbiid with muddy sediment, or even form crystals if exposed to great cold. (9) Avoid everything that will in the least affect the purity of the mother tinctures, such as strong light, direct sunlight, smoke, dust, damp, strong odour etc. (10) Strong-smelling mother tinctures, such as Asafoetida, Camphor, Iodine, Moschus, Terebinthinae oleum, jacoris etc. should be kept separately in airtight well-closed glass bottles. (11) In case of glass stoppered bottle, both the bottle and the stopper should be of hard potash glass to avoid introduction of glass particles in the mother tincture. (12) Mother tinctures should be well. filtered before storing or when dispensing. (13) All containers should be properly labelled in proper pharmaceutical name mentioning their strength/potencies and alcohol contained by % v. v., date of manufacturing, name of manufacturer, as far as possible, while storing, The sign is affixed after the name of each mother tincture, e.g., Avena Sativa@. PRESERVATION OF POTENTISED MEDICINES (I). Potentised medicines after putting in well-stoppered bottles, should be preserved in boxes or drawers. (2) For preserving potentised medicines coloured bottles should be avoided. (3) Medicines which may be affected by light or sunlight actinic glass bottles covered with a solution of asphaltum or black varnish should be used. (4) They should be preserved in a dry cool place, protecting from too heat or cold. (5) Avoid everything that in the least affect the purity of the potentised medicines, e.g., dust, odours, smoke, damp, strong light etc. (6) Name of the potentised medicine with the respective potency and the scale used. should be distinctly marked both on the cork and on the container's label, e.g. Belladonna 6x, Belladonna 6 or Belladonna 0/6 etc. In marking the label the date of manufacturing and the name of the manufacturer should also be stated.The original manufacturer should also write down the batch number and the percentage of alcohol contents by volume, if possible the date of Expiry should also be given. (7) Bottles should not be filled entirely full, as the potentised medicines shall come in contact with the corks. (8) Potentised medicines should be preserved separately from thc crude drug substances and mother tinctures. (9) If the liquid or solid potentised medicines change their normal colours, they should be rejected immediately. (10) Preparations of camphor should always be kept separate, otherwise they may antidote almost all medicines of vegetable origin. (11)In the rooms where potentised or Mother drug substances are to stored, no other odorous or non-odourous evaporating substances should be kept strictly. For storing the potentised medicines in small 5 ML or 10 ML vials, suitable wooden boxes should be made and they should be arranged alphabetically with gradual increasing potency horizontally. Separate boxes for different potencies may also be used. |
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