Homeopathic Pharmacy Question Bank 2

Full Questions (Long Questions)  (5 +10+15+20 Mark Pattern)

1.       What is an ideal vehicle? Write uses, properties & methods of preparation of commonly used solid vehicle in homoeopathy 

2.       Describe properties, preparation, & uses or alcohol used in homoeopathic pharmacy.  

3.       What are vehicles? Name different vehicles used in Homoeopathic pharmacy

4.       Describe in detail preparation of alcohol.

5.       Name different types of vehicles & describe alcohol in details 

6.       Describe different types of alcohol you know in relation to homoeopathic pharmacy

7.       What are the varieties of vehicles used for homoeopathic medicines State how they are to be selected in preparing medicine?

8.       What are vehicles? Classify them & give advantages & disadvantages of any four commonly used vehicles in homoeopathy. 

9.       Give properties & uses of 4 vehicles  commonly used in homoeopathic pharmacy   10. Give preparation, properties, advantages & possible impurities of alcohol / sac lac 

11.   Describe the preparation of sac lac. How will you detect impurities in it?

12.   What are vehicles? Give preparation, properties, & uses of Sac lac 

13.   What are vehicles? Describe preparation of sugar of milk in homoeopathic pharmacy.

14.   What are globules? How will you prepare globules in homoeopathic pharmacy?

15.   Describe  in detail the manufacturing process of globules & their uses.  

16.   What are the impurities found in Sugar of milk? Describe in detail process of Staph's method

17.   How will do prepare distilled water in homoeopathic pharmacy?  When is it used in laboratory?

18.   How will you prepare distilled water in homoeopathic pharmacy? What are the impurities found in it?

19.   Name different types of utensils.  Describe any 3 in details   

20.   Name the instruments & appliances used in pharmacy.  How will you clean them ? Describe in detail-Bottles, Water bath, Percolator/

21.   What is Prescription? Describe different parts of prescription.  Give examples of two prescriptions  

22.   What is  prescription writing.  Explain validity & utility of prescription writing

23.   What is the scope of ext. application in homoeopathic prescribing ? How will you select its ingredients?

24.   What is the scope of ext. Applications in homoeopathic prescribing? How will you prepare ar mica ointment

25.   How will you identify, select, collect & preserve a sample of calendula and prepare calendula ointment from it. 

26.   Differentiate in detail between trituration or succussion  

27.   What are the different sources of homoeopathic drugs?  Describe each  with example    

28.   Explain sources of homoeopathic, drugs  with their preservation  

29.   What are the different scales in preparing homoeopathic medicines? Describe in detail 50 milliscimal scale 

30.   Describe in detail different scales of preparing homoeopathic medicines  Describe in detail 50 milliscimal scale 

31.   Describe in detail different scales of preparing homoeopathic medicines 

32.   Write an essay on drug standarisation 

33.   What is standarisation? Describe the various parameters used to standardise a mother tincture

34.   What is standardization? Describe various parameters prepare a standard homoeopathic medicine 

35.   What is official sampling describe the process of percolation

36.   Write scope of homoeopathic pharmacy in relation to Materia Medica & Organon of medicine.

37.   Discuss the provisions related to sale & manufacture of homoeopathic medicines   

38.   Discuss the professions related to sale & manufacture of homoeopathic medicines

39.   What are nosodes? How are they prepared & preserved in lab.

40.   Describe the preparation of NI & N2 nosodes

41.   How will you proceed to prove a drug which in its natural form produces changes in body?   

Name few such drugs.

42.   How will you proceed to prove a drug which in its natural form does not effect the vital force? Name few such drugs.  ,  

43.   What is mother tincture? What is meant by drug power of mother tincture?

44.   Describe preparation of mother tincture from more juice & less juicy plants.

45.   Describe in detail preparation of mother tincture from class II III, IV, V-A with 3 examples of each  

46.   Differentiate in detail between mother tincture & mother substance 

47.   What is moisture content  of plant Describe in detail preparation of mother tincture from dry plant 

48.   What are the different methods of knowing moisture content plants? Describe any one of them

49.   What are the different methods of knowing moisture content of plants? How does it help in preparing mother tincture  

50.   Why do homoeopaths potentise their medicines?  What  are the different methods of potentisation

51.   What is jumping potency?  How will you convert insoluble substance into liquid potency 

52.   Write significance of conversion so solid potency of liquid potency.  How will you convert solid potency into liquid potency.  

53.   Explain conversion of Cal carb. 6 X to 8 X. Explanation why 7x of this medicine can not be available 

54.   How will you prepare liquid potency of cal carb. from this natural sources.

55.   How will you prepare Cal Cab. 1X (first potency) from its natural source?

56.   What is Scilla IC. Describe its preparation & how will you further potentise it.  

57.   Give preparation, purification, impurity detection & uses of any one vehicle used for trituration.  

58.   Describe the process of trituration. Why do we triturate drugs in  homeopathy  

 Short Notes 

1. Maceration  
2. Decantation                                      
3. Moisture content                                
4. Mother tincture                                  
5. Sources of drugs    
6. Placebo                                          
7. Nosode                                      
8. Succussion  
9. Trituration  
10. Fluxion potency                                  
11. Doctrine of potentisation                        
12. Scales of homoeopathy, 
13. Centicsmal scale                                 
14. Pharmacodynamics                              
15. Pharmacology                                  
16. Alcohol                                        
17. Aqueous solution  
18. Sublimation  
19. Filtration                                       
20. Remedy  
21. Sublimation  
22. Filtration sources  
23. Vegetable sources  
24. Preservation of drugs  
25. Ideal vehicle   
26. Calendula ointment   
27. Ointment  
28. External applications  
29. Doctrine of signature (with examples) 
30. Active  principle   
31. Prescription  writing     
32. Jumping potency  
33. Collection of medicinal plants   
34. Official sampling  
35. 50 Milliscimal potency   
36. Sarcodes  
37. Nosodes  
38. Dynamisation                      
39. Potentisation  
40. Potency                           
41. Pharmacy                        
42. Decimal scale  
43. Pharmacopoea  
44. Legislation in Homoeopathy              
45. Distilled water                
46. Distillation                      
47. Medicine                          
48. Drug  
49. Mortar & Pestle               
50. Chemical balance                  
51. Specific gravity                
52. Standardisation   
53. Arnica liniment                                                  
54. Liniment    
55. Differentiate between the following. 
56. Inscription & subscription writing   
57. Cane sugar & Milk 
58. Nosodes & Sarcodes         
59. Centiscimal & Decimal scale 

1.  Write  identifying features, constituents, & various actions or monographs of 

Aconite	Stramonium
Cantharis/Spanish Fly	Berberis v.
Nux vom/poison nut.	Sulphur
Anacardium orientalis.	Arnica
Jamal gota/Croton tig.	Aloe
Hyoscyamus nig.	Digitalis
Chelidonium	Dhatura
Coffea crud	China off.
Calendula	Sepia
Arsenic alb	Cina
Pulsatilla	Drosera
Colchicum	Apis mel
Abrotanum	Nux mosh
Aurum met	Carbo veg
Bryonia	Baptisia tinctora
Chamomilla
Opium
Lachesis