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Some Opium preparations include
Camphorated Opium tincture
Opium Tincture 50 ml
Benzoic Acid 5g
Racemic Camphor 3g
Anise Oil 3 ml
Ethanol (60 %) Sufficient to produce 1000 ml
Used to treat severe diarrhea
Papaveretum
Papaveretum is a mixture of 253 parts of Morphine Hydrochloride 23 parts of
Papaverine Hydrochloride and 20 parts of Codeine Hydrochloride.
Dover’s powder
Opium
Ipeca
Lactose
Used as diaphoretic
Heroin is a semisynthetic product (Acetyl morphine)
Illegal highly addictive drug
It is a white powder with a bitter taste. Most illicit heroin is sold as a brownish
powder usually mixed with other substances as drugs, starch, powdered milk…..
Extracts
These are group of drugs prepared by evaporating the aqueous decoction of certain
plant parts.
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