Abstract
The word medicine has been practiced in all languages in one way or another, as pharmacology, pharmacy, etc. The word is Homeric and means “herbal substance”, meaning a plant with some biological action. Homer’s epic poems contain many prescriptive adjectives for medicines, such as beneficial, soothing, and euphoric [1,2]. Herbs already known since antiquity are the original stock of medicines in European medicine. Some of them are used in therapeutics up to modern times [1].
Highlights
A drug is any chemical substance capable of affecting the functioning of the organism of each living being or microorganism when penetrates the living organism.Purpose: The purpose of this review study focuses on the characteristics, properties and contribution of generic drugs to modern therapeutics
Generic medicines play an important role in the pharmaceutical market because they offer effective treatment at low cost
They derive from the chemical group to which they may belong, such as alkaloids. They derive from their pharmacological action such as analgesics, antispasmodic, antimicrobial, and anesthetic drugs. They derive from their therapeutic effects such as antidepressants, antimalarials or anxiolytics
Summary
Every new “original” drug for marketing has been protected for some time with rights after its final approval such as banning its production by another company or banning the production of the active substance and patent, etc. During this period, the cost of research and development is proportionally included in the price of the drug, from the discovery of its active substance to its circulation. Other drug companies are granted the right to produce it.
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