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HISTORY OF THE PHARMACOPOEIA OF INDIA

         The Government of India through its letter No. 2338 H(C)/43 dated 26 January, 1944, directed the Drugs Technical Advisory Board list the drugs used in India, which are not mentioned in British Pharmacopoeia and also recommend the standards to be prescribed to maintain uniformity and the chemical tests to be used to establish identity and purity. The Government of India published the Indian Pharmacopoeial List in 1946, as a supplement to the British Pharmacopoeia. The term “List” in the title was “misleading” in that, the book not only contained a list of drugs which were of substantial medicinal value but also laid down standards.
                              The Indian Pharmacopoeial List contained about 180 monographs and a number of appendices prepared on the lines of the British Pharmacopoeia. Approximately 100 monographs were on vegetable drugs growing in India and on their galenicals. The drugs of plant origin such as cannabis,  rauwalfia, vasaka etc. were included in it. Similarly several oils such as ajowan, cassia, neem and pudina were included in it.

         The Pharmaceuticals and Drug Research Committee of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research decided in February 1947 to compile a “Brochure” to highlight the information and clinical uses of the important indigenous drugs of India. Later on it was decided to prepare a “Codex” instead of Brouchure.
                           
                      After the publication of the Indian Pharmacopoeial List, the Government of India, constituted an eleven-member Indian Pharmacopoeial Committee in 1948, in their notification No. F.1-1/48-DS dated 23rd November, 1948, for preparing the Pharmacopoeia of India. The tenure extended by one year vide Government notification No. F.6-10/53-DS dated the 21st November, 1953. In compiling the monographs of the first pharmacopoeia of India, help was taken from all available established scientific data in the modern pharmacopoeia, such as British Pharmacopoeia, the United States Pharmacopoeia, the International Pharmacopoeia products. The first edition of Pharmacopoeia of India was compiled and then published in 1955.
        
        

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