What is the role of alcohol contained by medicine?
Answer:
Alcohol is second only to hose in hurry as a solvent in medication and is used particularly to extract live ingredients from inert parts of crude drugs. This concentrates the medicinally alive ingredients and makes the drug easier to dispense and consume while also improving its digestion. It also acts as a preservative by preventing hydrolysis and inhibiting fermentation that would come about if water be used alone.
Usually it speeds up delivery into the bloodstream.
i would expect it is that alcohol depresses the central timid system,,,,,,,,,so in the grip of say , cough drug, it helps the body/muscles relax ,,,,,dulls them
cleans the blood
increasing the appetite
increase solubility of the actual drug
increase incorporation in the body
TCM would use as
http://www.shen-nong.com/eng/pdf/1206200...
Alcohol is a drug specifically absorbed into the bloodstream from the stomach and small intestine, also is used to calim and speed up the healhing process.