MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF UKRAINE

ODESSA NATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACOGNOSY

METHODICAL INSTRUCTIONS
FOR THE PRACTICAL CLASSES
IN PHARMACOLOGY
TOPIC: LIQUID DOSED DRUG FORMS. INFUSIONS AND
DECOCTIONS, TINCTURES AND LIQUID EXTRACTS,
MIXTURES
 Act.head of department
prof. Rozhkovsky Ya.V._________

Odessa 2020
Unit 2. LIQUID DOSED DRUG FORMS. INFUSIONS AND
DECOCTIONS, TINCTURES AND LIQUID EXTRACTS,
MIXTURES

I. Individual work
Control questions
1. General characteristics of decoctions and infusions. Difference in
preparation of these medicinal forms. Types of prescriptions. Information
about medical species.
2. The general rules of prescription Galen’s forms (tinctures, liquid extracts).
3. General characteristic of tinctures. Difference from infusions. Simple and
complex tinctures. Rules of prescription, a way of batching.
4. General characteristics of extracts. Kinds of extracts. Rules of prescription
fluid extracts, way of dosage.
5. New Galen’s forms. Difference from the Galen’s forms.
6. Mixtures, their characteristics and contents. Syrups, aromatic waters and
mucuses as ingredients of mixtures. Forms of mixtures prescribing, their
dosing.

List of practical works. Write prescriptions:

1) Infusion folium Menthae piperitae, SD – 0,05. For inner use, 1 table spoon 4 times
a day, 3 days.
2) Decoction cortex Quercus, SD – 1,0 For inner use, 1 table spoon 4 times a day
before meal, 3 days.
3) Tincture Hypericum 30 ml.
4) Compound of the tinctures Convallaria and Valeriana, SD – 10 drops each one.
5) Fluid extract of Frangula, SD – 30 drops
6) 15 ml. of Lantosidum.
7) Mixture from Natrii bromidum (Sodium bromide), SD – 0,1 and Coffeini –
natrium benzoas (Caffeine – sodium benzoate), SD – 0,05. For inner use, 1 table
spoon 4 times a day.
8) Mixture containing infusion of grass (herba) Adonis Vernalis, SD – 0,5; Natrii
bromidum (Sodium bromide) , SD – 0,5; Codeini phosphas (Codeine phosphate),
SD – 0,015. For inner use, 1 table spoon 3 times a day.
9) Mixture from: infusion of Valerian’s root (radix Valeriana), SD – 0,75; tincture of
Convallaria, SD – 10 drops; Natrii bromidum (Sodium bromide), SD – 0,3. For
inner use, 1 table spoon 3 times a day.

Tasks for self-control. Answer the following questions:

1) What relates to liquid dosage forms?
2) What are the infusions and decoctions? How do they differ? Terms of preparation
and dosing for adults and children.
3) How are written infusions and decoctions?
4) What do we refer to herbal medicines? How do they differ from the infusions and
decoctions? What rules are written and how they are dispensed?
5) What is the difference New – Galen`s herbal medications? According to what
rules are written and how they are dispensed?
6) What means mixture? By what rules they are prescribed and dosed?

II. Original practical work in class

1. To view the collection of drugs in liquid dosage forms.
2. To write prescriptions:
1) Infusion of folium Uvae ursi, SD – 0,8. For inner use, 1 table spoon 3 times a day.
2) Decoction of radix Polygalae, SD – 1,5. For inner use, 1 table spoon 3 times a day.
3) Tincture Belladonna, SD – 10 drops.
4) 25 ml. of complex tincture, composed from the 1 part tincture Belladonna, 4 parts
tincture Convallaria and tincture Valeriana equally.
5) Fluid extract of Grataegus. 20 drops 3 times a day.
6) 15 ml. of Adonisidum (Adoniside)
7) Mixture, containing infusion of radicis Valerianae, SD – 0,5; Natrii bromidum
(Sodium bromide) , SD – 0,3. For inner use, 1 table spoon 3 times a day.
8) Mixture, containing Pepsinum SD – 0,5 and Acidum hydrochloricum dilutum SD
– 10 drops. 1 table spoon 3 times a day before meal.
9) Mixture for adult and 6 years old kid, made on decoctum radix Althaeae SD – 0,5,
containing Natrii hydrocarbonas SD – 0,3. 1 spoon 3 times a day
10) Mixture ‘Quatera’ 200 ml. 1 table spoon 3 times a day