Unorganized Drugs

• The unorganized drugs do not have the morphological or anatomical organization as such.
• Plant exudates


  Gums, Oleogums, and Oleogum resins
• Plant Lattices


  Opium
• Aloetic juices


  Aloes
• Dried extracts


  Black and Pale catechu, agar, alginic acid, etc.
• Other products that are unorganized drugs

  Essential oils, fixed oils, fats and waxes obtained from vegetable or animal
• Unorganized drugs may be solid, semisolid, or liquid and the physical, chemical, and analytical standards may be applied for testing their quality and purity
• a product present in special tissue of plant. It is white, aqueous, suspension, the suspended particles are protein, sugar, minerals, alkaloid, resin, or starch.

  Latex
• Under microscope are small particles of oil globules


  latex
• Examples of latex


  opium, papain
• The juices obtained from fleshy leaves (aloe vera) or from the stems of the trees (kino)

  Dried juices
• Pharmacognostic origin of drugs are obtained by treating the part of plant with water or distillation followed by concentration


  Dried extracts
• Pharmaceutical origin of drugs are obtained by alcoholic or hydro-alcoholic solutions and adjusting the product to a standard strength

  Dried extracts
• amorphous substances, pathological products produced when the plant is under unfavorable conditions or injured


  gums
• thick, gluey substance produced by most plants and some microorganisms

  mucilage
• are produced by plants when it is injured, diseased, or by a process called Gummosis.

  Gums
• produced outside the plant cell

  gum
• soluble in water to form adhesive solution

  gum
• made up of sugar, salts or uronic acid like gum acacia and gum tragacanth


  gum
• normal products of plant growth

  mucilage
• produced inside the cell


  mucilage
• are not soluble in water, they form slimy solution with water


  mucilage
• is made up of ester and sulphuric acid 


  mucilage
• present in agar, senna, and isapgol


  mucilage
• homogenous mixture of volatile oils and resin


  oleoresins
• Example of oleoresin


  oleoresin of ginger
• homogenous mixture of volatile oil, gum and resin


  oleo-gum-resin
• examples of oleo-gum-resin


  myrrh, asafoetida