pharmacopeia
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a variation of
pharmacopoeia.
pharmacopoeianouna book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
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Indonesia issued the latest version of pharmacopeia, or drug standards guidelines, in 2020 that included for the first time maximum allowed limits of EG.
From Reuters ● Nov. 23, 2023
When China officially banned the international trade in 1993, it followed up by removing rhino horn as a medical ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine's pharmacopeia and curriculum.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 20, 2018
Fraught with fraud soon to be litigable, unregulated suppliers provide anyone anywhere with a personally designed private label naturopathic pharmacopeia, attractively packaged then sold with slick spin on pathology and need for treatment.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2016
The rhizome also figures in the pharmacopeia of Native Americans for its medicinal properties and is used as a remedy for sore throat.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
We have no tonic among all the drugs of the pharmacopeia that is equal to the effect of a brisk walk in the bracing air of a dry cold day.
From Health Through Will Power by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh