Bern Wart Ointment

Products Bern Wart Ointment is not commercially available as a finished drug product and must be prepared as a magistral prescription or house specialty in a pharmacy. Ingredients The ointment contains 2-naphthol, resorcinol, salicylic acid, thymol, and phenol in petrolatum and kerosene. A manufacturing specification can be found in the DMS. Bern wart ointments with … Bern Wart Ointment

Lipid Pneumonia

Symptoms Lipid pneumonia manifests as nonspecific symptoms such as chronic cough, sputum, hemoptysis, respiratory distress (dyspnea), fever (intermittent), chest pain, and weight loss due to increased work of breathing in hypoxia. Possible complications include superinfections. The disease was first described by G.F. Laughlen in 1925. He published two cases caused by ingestion of kerosene and … Lipid Pneumonia

Cetylstearyl Alcohol

Products Cetylstearyl alcohol is used as an excipient in medicinal products, especially in semisolid dosage forms such as creams or lotions. Structure and properties Cetylstearyl alcohol is a mixture of solid aliphatic alcohols consisting mainly of cetyl alcohol and stearyl alcohol of animal or plant origin. Cetylstearyl alcohol exists as white to pale yellow waxy … Cetylstearyl Alcohol

Mesulfen

Products Mesulfen was formerly included in Soufrol Sulfur Oil Bath, which also contained kerosene and excipients. It was approved in many countries in 1967. Since 2016, Soufrol no longer contains mesulfen, but colloidal sulfur. Structure and properties Mesulfen (C14H12S2, Mr = 244.38 g/mol) is an organic sulfur compound. Effects Mesulfen (ATC D10AB05, ATC P03AA03) has … Mesulfen

Cradle Cap

Symptoms Cradle cap often occurs in infants during the first months of life. It manifests as a yellowish, encrusted, greasy and scaly scalp and may be accompanied by redness. The rash is not itchy and does not pose a medical problem for the child. Redness may also occur around the eyes, on the neck, and … Cradle Cap

PED (Paraffin-Emodela Duphalac)

Production PED: Paraffinum liquidum 1/3 Emodella substitute 1/3 Duphalac or Rudolac 1/3 Since Emodella is out of trade, a substitute solution is made with a rotten tree bark extract: Emodella substitute: Frangulae extractum liquidum (Hanseler). 64.8 Glycerol 85 % PhEur 90.0 Ethanolum 96 % non potabile PhEur 83.4 Natrii benzoas pulvis 0.9 Aqua purificata PhEur … PED (Paraffin-Emodela Duphalac)

Medicinal Baths

Effects The effects are substance specific. Warm baths are generally warming, soothing, relaxing, vasodilating, and circulatory deregulating, e.g., blood pressure lowering and fatiguing. Indications Skin diseases, e.g. eczema, dry skin, psoriasis, acne. Rheumatic complaints, diseases of the musculoskeletal system, muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, spine; eg sore muscles, osteoarthritis. Colds, colds, coughs Nervousness, tension, stress Female … Medicinal Baths

Kerosene

Hard to imagine, but candles, chewing gum, cosmetics, cleaning products, sweets and shoe polishes have a common ingredient: kerosene, a waste product from the petroleum industry. Although the popular product is cheap and versatile, it also has negative sides. The central point of criticism is that the fossil fuel petroleum is consumed for the production … Kerosene

Menthol

Structure As menthol (C10H20O, r = 156.3 g/mol) is the naturally occurring (-)- or L-menthol (levomenthol, levomentholum). The European Pharmacopoeia contains two monographs: 1. menthol Levomentholum 2. racemic menthol Mentholum racemicum Menthol is a cyclic monoterpene alcohol. It has three asymmetric carbon atoms and occurs in four diastereomeric enantiomer pairs. Stem plants Menthol is found … Menthol

Kerosene as a Laxative

Products Kerosene is commercially available as an emulsion (Paragol N) and gel (Lansoyl). Paragar is no longer sold. In pharmacies or drugstores, the kerosene oil emulsion PH can be produced or thick kerosene PhEur can be dispensed as open goods. The corresponding manufacturing specification for kerosene oil emulsion can be found in Pharmacopoea Helvetica. Structure … Kerosene as a Laxative

Kerosenes

Products Pure kerosenes are available in pharmacopoeia quality in pharmacies and drugstores. They are also found in creams, ointments, pastes, body lotions, baths, eye drops, cosmetics, gauzes and emulsions for ingestion, among other products. Kerosenes are also known as mineral oils and have been used medicinally since the 19th century. Structure and properties The pharmacopoeia … Kerosenes

Fat Pencil for the Skin

Products Among the best-known fat sticks in many countries are, for example, Dermophil India, the Peru Stick and Tuc. They contain about 20 to 23 g of the preparation, making them much larger than lip balms (about 4 to 5 g). Like them, they can be made by yourself. To do this, the ingredients are … Fat Pencil for the Skin