What is the role of alcohol in medicines?
Is it not dangerous to cart morning pill if u r taking levothyroxin for hypothyroidism?
Answer:
Alcohol is second only to water in importance as a solvent in medicine and is used particularly to extract active ingredients from inert parts of crude drugs. This concentrates the medicinally active ingredients and makes the medicine easier to dispense and consume while also improving its absorption. It also acts as a preservative by preventing hydrolysis and inhibiting fermentation that would occur if water was used alone.
i feeling cold and runny nose what to take ?
Usually it speeds up delivery into the bloodstream.
Does St. John's wart really work for stress or antidepressant?
i would think it is that alcohol depresses the central nervous system,,,,,,,,,so in the case of say , cough medicine, it helps the body/muscles relax ,,,,,dulls them
How Exactly Do Antidepressants Work?
cleans the blood
How do I start practicing Reiki, I am a plane 2 practitioner?
increasing the appetite
increase solubility of the actual drug
increase absorption in the body
TCM would use as
http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/pdf/1206200...
Pills for depression or marihuana, which is better?
Alcohol is a drug that is absorbed into the bloodstream from the stomach and small intestine, also is used to calim and speed up the healhing process.