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B&O Online, Description, Chemistry, Ingredients - Belladonna and Opium
B&O Online, Description, Chemistry, Ingredients - Belladonna and Opium
DESCRIPTION
BELLADONNA & OPIUM RECTAL SUPPOSITORIES
Each belladonna and opium
suppository contains (in
a water-soluble base consisting of Polyethylene Glycol 400, 1450, 8000
and Polysorbate 60):
Belladonna (16.2 mg) and Opium (30 mg): Powdered opium
30 mg (Warning: May be habit
forming.) and powdered belladonna
extract 16.2 mg.
Belladonna (16.2 mg) and Opium (60 mg): Powdered opium
60 mg (Warning: May be habit
forming.) and powdered belladonna
extract 16.2 mg.
This drug falls into the pharmacological/
therapeutic class
of narcotic analgesic/ antispasmotic agents.
The pharmacologically active principles present
in the belladonna extract
component of belladonna
and opium suppositories are:
Established Name: Atropine
Chemical Name: dl
Tropyl Tropate
and
Established Name: Scopolamine
Chemical Name: dl
Scopolamine
Opium contains more than twenty alkaloids, the principle
ones being morphine (10%), narcotine (6%), papaverine (1%) and codeine
(0.5%). The major pharmacologically active principle
of the powdered opium component
of belladonna and opium
suppositories, however, is:
Name: Morphine
Chemical Name: 7,8-Didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17- Methyl-morphinan-3,6-diol
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