Medicinal plants based syrups with pediatric applications
April 18, 2010
| Abstract Title: | Medicinal plants based syrups with pediatric applications |
| Authors: | Maria Pop, Adriana Palko, Melania Munteanu |
| Affiliation: | “Vasile Goldis” Western University, Arad, Romania |
| Abstract text: | Syrups are liquid pharmaceutical preparations that have high sugar content that are viscous destined for internal administration. They are clear or of opalescent nature , their smell, taste and color are specific to their components. Preparing them is made by dispersing their active substances or their vegetal extracts in solutions that have a high sugar concentration or in simple syrups bringing them to the provided mass (m/m). Medicinal plants are vegetal species, cultivated or spontaneous, which trough their chemical composition have pharmaceutical proprieties and are used in human and veterinary therapy. They have a major importance in pediatrics because the syrups used for children are made from plants. Generally plant based syrups have an cough controlling, respiratory tracts and anti-inflammatory effect, they restore and revitalize the organism during viral respiratory and/or bacterial infections at children or are utilized for bronchitis and diseases of the respiratory tract and can have expectorant and anti-inflammatory effects. |
| Keywords: | cough, medicinal plants, viral infections, respiratory, bronchitis |
| Presentation type: | Oral |
| Correspondence: | no. 1 Feleacului St., Arad, Romania |
| Email: | peanuts_88@yahoo.com |
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