Do you have a correct understanding of the drug or not?

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Pharmacy is medicine and drug-related activities. So what is a drug? The article will help readers understand the definition of a drug substance as well as specialized terms related to pharmacy.

1. What is a drug substance?

Pharmaceutical substance is a substance or mixture of substances used to produce drugs, have pharmacological effects or have effects for disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, adjustment of physiological functions of the human body, thereby. help alleviate illness.
dược chất
Dược chất là một chất hoặc hỗn hợp các chất dùng để sản xuất ra thuốc.

2. Terms related to the field of pharmacy


Medicinal materials, also known as active ingredients, include substances or mixtures of substances with therapeutic purposes, used in the manufacture of drugs. Drugs from pharmaceutical substances are drugs that are produced from materials derived from nature, such as animals, plants or minerals. Medicines with active ingredients are also extracted from medicinal herbs.
However, drugs that have a combination of herbal ingredients with synthetic chemical active ingredients are not called drugs from pharmaceutical ingredients.
Oriental medicine is also called a pharmaceutical ingredient because of its oriental medicinal properties, it is prepared according to the method of traditional medicine in these countries.
New drug means a drug containing a new pharmaceutical ingredient, a drug with a new blend of already circulated pharmaceutical ingredients. Precursors used as drugs are indispensable chemicals in the process of preparing and producing narcotic drugs and drugs for treatment of mental illness. Precursors are important components involved in the formulation of narcotics and psychotropic substances. Essential drugs are drugs that serve the health needs of people. Prescription drugs are drugs that need to be prescribed by a doctor. If you buy or use it without following the instructions of the prescriber, it can be dangerous to life and health. Drug sellers must sell drugs according to prescriptions of doctors and are regulated to sell prescription drugs in the category of prescription drugs. Over-the-counter drugs are drugs that are sold and used without a prescription. Narcotic drugs are drugs that the patient uses for a long time will have the possibility of becoming addicted. Radiopharmaceuticals are drugs that contain one or more radioactive substances, used in the diagnosis or treatment of diseases. Raw materials for drug preparation are substances that participate in the composition of products in the drug manufacturing process. Drug side effects are unwanted effects that can occur at usual doses. New drug-related side effects appear from person to person. Expiry date of a drug is a clearly printed use period in a batch of drugs, after which it is no longer allowed to use the drug. Counterfeit drugs are drugs that have no therapeutic effect, created by the manufacturer with the purpose of deceiving users, including the following cases: The product does not have any active ingredients. There are raw materials, however, medicinal herbs are not correct compared to the registered content. There are pharmaceutical ingredients that do not match the ingredients listed on the product packaging. Forging the company name, model of a drug registered for property protection by another company.
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