The term Pharmacopoeia comes from the Greek word “Pharmakon” meaning ‘drug’ and ‘Poiein’ meaning ‘make’, and the combination means any recipe or formula or other standard required to make or prepare a drug. The term ‘Pharmacopoeia’ was first used in 1580 in a book on drug standards printed in Bergamo, Italy. After that a number of national pharmacopoeias were published by various European Pharmacopoeias- the London, the Edinburgh and the Dublin pharmacopoeia were official throughout the kingdom. Each pharmacopoeia described different strength and method of preparation for the same preparation. Hence there was a lot of confusion. To overcome this difficulty, the first British Pharmacopoeia came into existence in 1...