Unit 5 Part 3 | General Pharmacy (BP102T) · B Pharm 1st Semester (PCI 2026 Syllabus)
Suppositories and pessaries: routes, bases, excipients, packaging and quality control, displacement value calculation, and preparation by fusion, compression and hand rolling.

Topics covered
• Rectal, vaginal and urethral preparations: routes, potential uses and limitations
• Packaging, labelling, storage and quality control
• Fatty and water-miscible suppository bases
• Functional excipients and selection of a suitable base
• Displacement factor / displacement value: worked calculation
• Fusion or moulding, compression and hand-rolling methods

Chapters
00:00 Suppositories and pessaries: routes, uses and limitations
04:59 Packaging, storage and quality control
12:03 Suppository bases: fatty and water-miscible bases
15:44 Excipients and base selection
17:44 Displacement factor: worked calculation
22:33 Preparation methods: fusion, compression and hand rolling

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