What are the pharmaceutical uses of resin?

The gum resin of Commiphora molmol (myrrh) is antiparasitic, analgesic, and antineoplastic (Massoud, 2001; Dolara, 1996; Qureshi, 1993). Resins also find widespread use outside of medicine as varnishes, lacquers, waterproofing agents, adhesives, and precursor materials for industrial chemical production.

What is the importance of resins?

The resin protects the plant from insects and pathogens. Resins confound a wide range of herbivores, insects, and pathogens, while the volatile phenolic compounds may attract benefactors such as parasitoids or predators of the herbivores that attack the plant.

Is resin used in drugs?

Resins being the natural products are the secondary metabolites which have therapeutic actions in humans and which can be refined to produce the drugs. Humans have been using plant resins for thousands of years.

What is a resin medicine?

Bile acid resin: Bile acid resins are substances that bind in the intestines with bile acids that contain cholesterol and are then eliminated in the stool. Bile acid resins are sometimes prescribed with a statin for patients with heart disease to increase cholesterol reduction.

Which drug contains resin?

Dragon’s blood and benzoin are the common resin ester containing drugs. Resin alcohols or resinols are the complex alcoholic com-pounds of high molecular weight. Like resin acids they are found as free alcohols or as esters of benzoic, salicylic, and cinnamic acids.

What are the properties of resins?

Properties of Resins

• These are transparent or translucent solid or semisolid in nature.
• The specific gravity of resins is more than water.
• They generally become soft on heating.
• Resins generally occur in an amorphous state.
• These are generally insoluble in water.

When was resin first used?

Natural resins have been since as early as the days of ancient Egypt, and more extensively in the 1200’s AD by the Mongols. The Mongols invented the world’s first composite (made of multiple components) bow, which were bound together with natural pine resin.

What is questran used for?

Questran is used to lower high levels of cholesterol in the blood, especially low-density lipoprotein (LDL) (“bad” cholesterol). Questran powder is also used to treat itching caused by a blockage in the bile ducts of the gallbladder.

What is cholestyramine used to treat?

Cholestyramine is used to lower high cholesterol levels in the blood. This may help prevent medical problems caused by cholesterol clogging the blood vessels. Cholestyramine is also used to remove substances called bile acids from your body.

What a resins how are they classified?

Resins are transparent or translucent solids, semisolids, or liquid substances. They are brittle solid. They are fusible and flammable organic substances. They are not soluble in water but heavier than water.

What methods are used to isolate resins from crude drugs?

However the most generalized technique can be the extraction of the drug with alcoholic solvents and then subsequent precipitation of resin by adding concentrated alcoholic extract to a large proportion of water. The method of distillation or hydrodistillation can be used for the separation of volatile oils from resin.

What are our resins used for?

Our resins are used in drug formulations as active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) or excipients. The production of all pharmaceutical products must adhere to strict guidelines. Purolite pharmaceutical resins meet the demands of the American (USP), European (Ph.Eur.), British (BP) and Japanese (JP) pharmacopeias.

Why is resin sold as a prescription drug?

The marketing of resin as a prescription drug indicates the pharmacological interest in these resins. For example, an extract of the resin of Commiphora wightii called gugulipid became commercially available by 1987 for management of atherosclerosis and hyperlipidemia.

What is indindion resin?

INDION Resins are used as active pharmaceutical ingredient for tablet disintegration, improving palatability of ionizable drugs as taste masking agents, for treatment of hypercholesterolemia & hyperkalaiemia, sustained release of drug, vitamin B12 stabilisation and many more.

What are ion exchange resins used for in pharmaceuticals?

In addition to their application as active pharmaceutical ingredients, excipients, ion exchange resins and polymeric adsorbents can be used in a wide variety of pharmaceutical applications including extraction and purification of enzymes, hormones, alkaloids, viruses, antibiotics, and treatment of fermentation products.

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