LATEST HOMOEOPATHIC PHARMACY QUESTION BANK FOR BHMS STUDENTS (2022-2023 SYLLABUS)

1. History of Medicine

• FQ: Trace the history and development of Homoeopathic Pharmacy.
• FQ: Discuss the evolution of medicine with a focus on Homoeopathy.
• SN: Contributions of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann to Homoeopathic Pharmacy.
• SN: Historical milestones in the development of Homoeopathic Pharmacy.

2. Pharmacy and Pharmacopoeia

• FQ: What is pharmacopoeia? Write down different homoeopathic pharmacopoeia in detail.
• FQ: What is pharmacy? What are the branches of homoeopathic pharmacy? Write down the sources of homoeopathic pharmacy in detail.
• FQ: What is pharmacy? What are the sources of homoeopathic pharmacy? Write down vegetable/animal kingdom in detail (All the sources are important).
• SN: American homoeopathic pharmacopoeia/ H.P.U.S.
• SN: Homoeopathic pharmacopoeia of India.
• SN: Imponderabilia.
• SN: Pharmacist
• SN: Sarcodes and Nosodes
• SN: What are the branches of homoeopathic pharmacy?
• SN: Write down the difference between pharmacy and pharmacopoeia.

3. Pharmacology

• FQ: Define pharmacology. What are the branches of it? Write down the methods that determine disease producing power of drug substances,
• SFQ: Pharmacodynamics of homoeopathic remedies.

4. Collection and preservation of drug substances

• FQ: How will you preserve the drug substances?
  SN: Preservation of potentised medicine.
• FQ: What are the general and specific rules for collecting of Animal drug substances?
• FQ: What are the general and specific rules for collecting of Vegetable drug substances?
• SN: Collection of Nosodes and Sarcodes.
• SN: General rules of collection and preservation of drug substances.

5. Constituents in plant substances

• FQ: Write down different methods of drug standardisation.
• SN: Examination of moisture content of plant.
• SN: Quantitative determination of Alcohol in homoeopathic preparations.
• SN: What are the standards of finished preparation?

6. Vehicles

• FQ: Alcohol-Properties, preparation, preservation, dispensing and standardisation in detail.
• FQ: Rectified spirit- Its preparation and its conversion into pure alcohol in detail.
• FQ: What is placebo? Its utility and Hahnemann’s view regarding placebo.
• FQ: What is sugar of milk? Write down its physical and chemical characteristics, preparation, uses and standardisation of sugar of milk.
• FQ: Write down Aqua distillate in detail.
• FQ: Write down solid vehicles in detail.
• SN: An ideal vehicle
• SN: Cane sugar
• SN: Cones
• SN: Dispensing alcohol
• SN: Globules and pilules
• SN: Lactopan/ Phylum/ Rubrum/ Placebo.
• SN: Lanolin
• SN: Olive oil
• SN: Properties of Glycerine.
• SN: Purity tests for alcohol.
• SN: Spermaceti
• SN: Uses of vehicles
• SN: Vaseline

7. Laboratory methods and utensils

• FQ: Do’s and Don’ts for good microscopy.
• FQ: Write down the process of distillation in detail.
• SN: Crystals and crystallisation.
• SN: Desiccators
• SN: Filtration
• SN: Glass retort
• SN: Hot air oven
• SN: Hydrometer
• SN: Mortar and pestle
• SN: Percolator
• SN: Rapid filtration
• SN: Solution
• SN: Spatula
• SN: Sublimation
• SN: Thermometry
• SN: Water-bath

8. Preparation and preservation of drug substances

• FQ: Write down the old method of preparation of mother tincture in detail.
• FQ: Preparation of mother tincture by new method.
• SN: Class 1 of Hahnemannian method.
• FQ: Maceration
• FQ: Percolation
• SFQ: Write down the difference between old method and new method of preparation of drugs.

9. Dynamisation

• FQ: What are the different scales of trituration and succession? Write down 50 Millesimal scale (L.M. Scale) in detail.
• FQ: What is the process of Potentisation/ Dynamisation.
• FQ: Write down the Decimal scale and Centesimal scale in detail. What is the relation between them?
• FQ: Write down the origin and evolution of the theory of dynamization.
• FQ: Write down the process of trituration in detail.
• SFQ: Advantages and disadvantages of using 50 Millesimal potencies.
• SFQ: Write down the meaning and differences of Drug, Medicine and Remedy.
• SN: Fluxion potency.
• SN: How will you administer the medicine in 50 Millesimal potency?
• SN: Medium (straight) potency.
• SN: Merits and demerits of trituration.
• SN: Schematic presentation of preparation of 50 Millesimal potencies.
• SN: Succussion.
• SN: Uses and advantages of Potentisation/ Dynamisation.

10. Standardisation of drugs

• FQ: Write down different methods of drug standardisation for vegetable and animal kingdom.
• SN: Examination of moisture content of plant.
• SN: Quantitative determination of alcohol in homoeopathic preparations.
• SN: What are the standards of finished preparations?

11. Drug actions

• SFQ: Classification of drug action.
• SN: General principles of drug action.
• SN: Physiological drug action.

12. Medication and administration of drug substances

• FQ: Role of vital force and Hahnemann’s views regarding local diseases and local application.
• FQ: What are the different routes of administration of homoeopathic drugs? (Pharmaconomy)
• FQ: What are the types of external application?
• SN: Cerates
• SN: Fomentations
• SN: Globules
• SN: Lotions
• SN: Medication of globules.
• SN: Mother tinctures for external applications.
• SN: Ointment
• SN: Oral route
• SN: Poultices/ Cataplasms
• SN: Tablets

13. Posology and Homoeopathy

• FQ: Write down posology and Homoeopathic posology in detail.
• SFQ: Factors determining the selection of potency.
• SN: Various kinds of doses.
• SN: Repetition of doses.
• SN: Why only a single, simple medicine is given at a time?
• SN: A homoeopathic dose.
• SN: Selection of potency.

14. Prescription writing

• FQ: Write down principles of prescription writing.
• SN: Ideal prescription with example.
• SN: Inscription.

15. Drug proving

• FQ: How to conduct drug proving?
• SFQ: History and evolution of Homoeopathic drug proving.
• SFQ: Methods of preparation and doses of drug substances for proving.
• SN: An idiosyncratic prover.
• SN: Best prover
• SN: Day book.
• SN: Ideal prover
• SN: Precautions to be taken while drug proving.

16. Laws and ethics

• FQ: Duties of medical practitioners to the profession.
• FQ: Duties of medical practitioners to the society.
• FQ: Homoeopathic pharmacy Acts in detail.
• FQ: Write down the character, moral and responsibilities of homoeopathic practitioner to their patient.
• SFQ: Labelling and packing of homoeopathic medicines.
• SN: Professional misconduct.

17. Scope of homoeopathy in pharmacy

• SFQ: How the knowledge of pharmacy helps to increase the knowledge of homoeopathic Materia medica?
• SN: Scopes of Homoeopathic pharmacy.
• SN: Scopes pf pharmacy in relation to Organon of medicine.

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