Take compound licorice oral liquid shoulds not be driving

JiangXiaoNan Hebei university hospital pharmacy department

China's traditional Chinese medicine reported

        Compound licorice oral solution is a common over-the-counter drugs, general enterprise can buy, used in upper respiratory tract infection, bronchitis and cold generated when the cough and sputum not great. This drug use time of about one hundred years history, China has to use more than fifty years. Due to the effect of cough, eliminate sputum fast side effect is small, so by doctors and patients' welcome.

        To ensure clinical drug safety, perfect the contents, the food and drug administration to compound licorice oral solution instruction has been revised. "Taboo" items of increased "for ethanol (alcohol) allergies are disabled. "Notes" increased under a "because this product contains ethanol (alcohol), taking the product may not operate machinery and after driving". Compound licorice oral solution consists in part of liquorice extract of flow, compound camphor ding, healing and wood phenol Kennedy wine ether, glycerin, strong ammonia solution etc, with licorice flow extracts and compound camphor ding containing a certain doses of alcohol composition, liquorice extract of flow of alcohol concentration between 20% ~ 25%, compound camphor ding alcohol concentration between 11% ~ 12%, the compound licorice made after oral solution, and the general alcohol concentration between 10% ~ 14%, the red wine is equivalent to the ordinary alcohol concentration, therefore, after taking the product may not operate machinery and drive the vehicle.