PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATIONS

 Pharmaceutical formulation is a process in which different ingredients Active as well as Excipients are combined to produce a final medicinal product. The word formulation is often used in a way that includes dosage form. 

Medicinal Product can be ALLOPATHIC, AYURVEDIC. HOMEOPATHIC, UNANI, SIDDHA or SPECIAL FOOD to fight, cure, prevent, modify, improve a diseased condition or disease. 

There may be combinations of these also like Ayurvedic in Allopathic, Allopathic in Ayurvedic, Allopathic in Food, Ayurvedic in Homeopathic and many other combinations you can check over the counter at CHEMIST SHOP. Final licensing Authority which gives permission to manufacture a medicinal Product determines its class as allopathic, ayurvedic, homeopathic, Unani or Food Product. It also depends upon country to country to put the medicinal product in a particular class depending upon the License granted to manufacture the same. 

Every class has its advantages as well as disadvantages. Out of these classes ALLOPATHIC is most advanced category of Medicines, AYURVEDIC is oldest category of medicines