Is Pharmacology Difficult Podcast NATURE & SOURCES OF DRUGS-1

Welcome all to IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT Podcast! I am Dr Radhika Vijay. Do you have any idea about nature of drugs? Did you ever wonder from where drugs are obtained? all these pearls of information are stringed. in today's episode. I will start my verbal skills with the most groundfooted basic drug origin, its actually a chemical entity, as simple and as complex as you know and you can imagine!first set of classification is in Organic and Inorganic drugs with their examples. next set of classification is on the basis of drug states like solid, liquid and gaseous drugs, again with their examples. Next set of classification is on the basis of molecular weight of drugs. It may range from 100-1000 D. Too small and too large drugs have their own complications, though I have talked about exceptions here too.Next I would be shortly commenting upon Xenobiotics and some natural body substances behaving like drugs specially when chemically modified into signal molecules/chemical congeners of prototype. Next I will be opening the pandora's box for the synthetic sources of drugs. yes, there are broadly two major types of drug sources-Synthetic and Non synthetic. So today's talk will be centered  around synthetic ones. Why the sources for majority of drugs has changed into laboratories from natural plants and animals. For understanding this, I will give you so many benefits of having drugs synthetically or semi synthetically produced. Finally summarizing the essence of synthetic drug production in one sentence, when chemical and physical properties of drug change, its pharmacological activity also changes.I will wrap it up for today with few wonderful examples. To unravel the mysteries of more non synthetic drug sources, you all need to be patient till next episode.... For all the updates and latest episodes of my podcast, please visit www.ispharmacologydifficult.com where you can also sign up for a free monthly newsletter of mine. It actually contains lot of updates about the medical sciences, drug information and my podcast updates also. You can follow me on different social media handles like twitter, insta, facebook and linkedin. They all are with same name "IS PHARMACOLOGY DIFFICULT". If you are listening for the first time, do follow me here, whatever platform you are consuming this episode, stay tuned, do rate and review on ITunes, Apple podcasts, stay safe, stay happy, stay enlightened, Thank you!!