S. M. Deo Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital

Balaghat (M.P.)

CONSTITUENT UNIT OF SARDAR PATEL UNIVERSITY BALAGHAT

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Department of Homoeopathic Pharmacy

The Art & Science of Remedy Preparation: Ensuring Purity, Potency & Efficacy

About the Department

The Department of Homoeopathic Pharmacy at S. M. Deo Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital trains BHMS students in the scientific preparation, standardization, dispensing, and quality control of homoeopathic medicines. It ensures that remedies are prepared as per Hahnemannian principles — maintaining purity, dynamization, and therapeutic power.

The subject is taught mainly in the First and Second BHMS years, covering pharmacognosy, sources of drugs, vehicles, potentization techniques, scales of potency, drug proving standards, and legal aspects (Drugs & Cosmetics Act, Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India – HPI).

Practical training includes hands-on preparation of mother tinctures, triturations, dilutions, dispensing methods, and laboratory analysis, preparing students to handle pharmacy in clinical practice and dispensing units.

Teaching Faculty

Dr. Sanjaykumar Satpute

Professor

B.H.M.S., M.D.

Experience: 02 Years

Dr. Vishal Saxena

Associate Professor

B.H.M.S., M.D.

Experience: 02 Years

Dr. Nivedita Malwe

Assistant Professor

B.H.M.S., M.D.

Experience: 03 Years

Syllabus Highlights (First & Second BHMS – As per NCH Guidelines)

Introduction to Homoeopathic Pharmacy: Historical development, sources of drugs (plant, animal, mineral, nosodes, sarcodes, imponderabilia)
Pharmacognosy: Study of crude drugs, identification, collection, preservation, adulteration detection
Pharmaceutical Processes: Solution, trituration, succussion, potentization (decimal & centesimal scales), fluxion method
Preparation of Mother Tinctures, Dilutions, Triturations, Globules, Tablets, Ointments, External Applications
Vehicles & Bases: Alcohol, sugar of milk, cane sugar, glycerine, olive oil, petrolatum – standards & quality control
Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India (HPI): Monographs, rules, standards, labeling, packaging
Dispensing Pharmacy: Prescription reading, posology, dosage forms, storage, incompatibility
Legal & Forensic Aspects: Drugs & Cosmetics Act 1940 (as applicable to homoeopathy), Homoeopathic Central Council regulations, drug proving ethics
Practical: Laboratory preparation of 50+ mother tinctures & potencies, identification tests, dispensing exercises

Total Teaching Hours: Approximately 200 theory + 200 practicals (laboratory work, drug identification, dispensing)

Infrastructure & Facilities

Homoeopathic Pharmacy Laboratory

Well-equipped with mortar-pestle sets, potentizing machines, percolators, distillation units, weighing balances, and glassware for preparation work.

Crude Drug Museum

Specimens of plant, mineral, animal sources, preserved drugs, charts for pharmacognosy identification.

Dispensing Section

Globules of different sizes, sugar of milk, bottles, labels, and tools for actual dispensing practice.

Quality Control Area

Basic testing equipment, microscopes, reagents for adulteration detection and standardization.

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