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concentrated, aqueous preparations of sugar and
sugar-substitute with or without added flavoring
agents and medicinal substances

Provide a pleasant means of administering a liquid
form of a disagreeable-tasting drug.

Serve as pleasant-tasting vehicles for
medicinal substances to be added in the
extemporaneous compound of prescription

Commercially prepared from the starting
material, i.e. by combining each of the
individual components of the syrup-sucrose,
purified water, flavouring agents, coloring
materials, the therapeutic agent, etc.
- Employed in the therapeutics for the value of
the medicinal agent present.

Provide sweetness and viscosity

Syrup’s component must not be
heat-labile and volatile

employed as the source of medication
• Contain alcohol-soluble constituents prepared
with alcoholic or hydro-alcoholic vehicles
• Miscible with aqueous preparations→ added
directly to simple/flavoured syrup

rate will not exceeding 1mL of
percolate/minute

- rate of 1 to
3mL/minute

rate of 3 to 5mL per minute

Basis for the preparation of
flavoured or medicated
syrups

bitter tasting drugs

drugs stable in acidic medium

disguise salty or sour taste of
saline medications

flavoured vehicle for cough
syrup

vehicle for drugs requiring an
acid medium

non sucrose

aka simple sYRUP