THE STUDY OF PHARMACOPOEIAS USED IN
THE ROMANIAN AREA IN XVIII-XXTH
CENTURIES: EVOLUTION OF PROPORTIONS
FOR DRUG SUBSTANCES AND
PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS
EMILIA STANCU, ANA CARATA, ADRIANA-ELENA TĂEREL*,
VALENTINA SOROCEANU
University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", Bucharest,
Faculty of Pharmacy, 6 Traian Vuia, 020956, Bucharest, Romania
* corresponding author: adriana.taerel@yahoo.com
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Abstract:

The main function of Pharmacopoeias is to officially regulate the quality of
medicines. Indirectly, Pharmacopoeias allow also the reestablishment of the
pharmacological picture for the period they were in force, medicinal substances and
pharmaceutical preparations used in therapy being included as individual monographs.
Depending on the progress and needs in therapeutic practice, successive editions of the
Pharmacopoeia recorded changes. Relating to the introduction of new monographs or
removing those outdated and change in percentage of representation for various categories
of medicinal substances (herbal, animal and mineral or obtained by chemical synthesis).
According to the Pharmacopoeias used on the current Romanian territory from 1780 to
present, there were decreases for herbal (63.96%), animal (7.64%) derived drugs and
pharmaceutical forms (33.02%) and a growth for mineral remedies / synthetic drug
substances (71.60%).

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