Kakvoća homeopatskih proizvoda

Professional paper - Review paper

• Author: Josipa: Biondić Fučkar Cvek
• Author: Ivan Kosalec
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry; (Department of microbiology)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE; Pharmacy; Pharmacy

Abstract (croatian)

Homeopathic medicinal product is any medicine prepared in accordance with a
homeopathic manufacturing procedure described by a pharmacopoeia in official use
or other officially recognized documents. Starting from variety of source materials
(medicinal plants, animal and human materials, pathogens as well as minerals and
chemicals), the homeopathic manufacturing procedure includes potentization or dilution
of the product into different grades or potencies.
Nowdays, the use of homeopathic medicines for self-healing is widespread not
only in the European region but also in south Asian countries and North and Souch
American countries. With the rapid expansion of their global market, the safety and
the quality of homeopathic medicines has become a major concern for the public health.
The safety of the homeopathic medicines largely depends on their quality. Two
issues are decisive for the quality of homeopathic medicine: determining the authenticity
and the origin of the starting materials according to the homeopathic tradition,
and defining the manufacturing procedure. Because of the wide range of processing
techniques and manufacturing methods in the different pharmacopoeias, the final
homeopathic products may show marked variability. Second, the specific nature of
homeopathic medicines have as consequence that some of the methods for quality
control and some test systems that are mandatory in pharmaceutical regulation, may
at times be inapplicable or irrelevant. These include identification and quantification
of active substance contained in the final homeopathic product at high potency. In
such cases the quality should be demonstrated by complete validation of the manufacturing
and dilution process, and also by quality control of the starting material and
of the least diluted source employed for potentization (e.g. mother tincture).
As long as the identity and purity of starting materials and the reproducibility
of the manufacturing process are given, the consistency of quality of homeopathic
medicines is assured allowing their safe use.

• Keywords (croatian): homeopatija; homeopatski proizvodi; Europska farmakopeja
• Language: croatian
• Publication type: Professional paper - Review paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - domestic
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Farmaceutski glasnik
• Numbering: vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 151-176
• p-ISSN: 0014-8202
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:163:992592
• Publication: 2012
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2020-07-13 07:08:15