Drugs Containing Resins
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Resin can be defined as the complex amorphous product of more or less solid characteristics which on heating first sets softened and then melt. Resins are produced and stored in the schizogenous or schizolysigenous glands or cavities of the plants.
Drugs Containing Resins
DEFINITION
Resin can be defined as the complex amorphous product of more
or less solid characteristics which on heating first sets softened and then
melt. Resins are produced and stored in the schizogenous or schizolysigenous
glands or cavities of the plants. Isolated resin products which come as an
unorganized crude drug in the market are more or less solid, hard, transparent,
or translucent materials. Resins are insoluble in most polar and nonpolar
solvents like water and petroleum ether, respectively, but dissolve completely
in alcohol, solvent ether, benzene, or chloroform.
