Abstract

SUPPOSITORY DRUG DELIVERY: A REVIEW

Narendra Kumar Maurya*, Dr. Vijay Aggrawal and Shubhanjali

ABSTRACT

Medicine can take into your body by various ways. You can swallow a tablets, drink a liquid form of medicine, or by parenteral. Suppository are the dosage form inserted into body cavity, mainly rectum and vagina to deliver the drug into the systemic circulation. Suppositories can be taken by patients which unable to take medicine orally due to nausea and vomiting, and neurological disorder. Suppositories are used over other dosage form because some medicines have too bad taste and difficulty in swelling. This paper represents different technique of manufacturing of rectal, vaginal and urethral suppositories and used to treat several conditions of patients.

Keywords: Suppository, rectal, urethral, vaginal, suppository base, displacement value.