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• Structure of the Anthroposophic Pharmaceutical Codex, APC
• List of Abbreviations and Symbols
• Glossary

1. Part I Definitions
   1. Definition of an anthroposophic medicinal product
   2. Starting materials; general information
      1. Minerals, rocks and natural waters
      2. Starting material of botanical origin
      3. Starting material of zoological origin
      4. Starting material that can be described chemically
      5. Starting materials that have undergone special treatment
      6. Compositions
   3. Vehicles and excipients
   4. Active substances
      1. Starting materials as active substances
      2. Preparations
2. Part II General monographs and specific production methods (Pharmaceutical processes)
   1. Introduction: Brief description of pharmaceutical processes used in anthroposophic pharmacy
   2. Correlation table of general monographs and related specific production methods
   3. Special treatment of raw materials
      1. Vegetabilisation methods of substances used for mother tinctures
   4. Metal preparations
      1. Metal mirrors
   5. Tinctures and oil extracts
      1. Cold treated mother tinctures and liquid preparations thereof
      2. Tinctures made by maceration with water or ethanol/water
      3. Tinctures made by maceration with glycerol
      4. Liquid preparations made by maceration with oil
      5. Tinctures made by percolations
      6. Buffered aqueous mother tinctures under exclusion of oxidative influence
      7. Fermented tinctures
      8. Tinctures made by digestion (Digestio)
      9. Tinctures made by infusion (Infusum)
      10. Tinctures made by decoction (Decoction)
      11. Oil extracts with heat treatment
      12. Preparations made by distillation
      13. Tinctures obtained by rhythmic application of heat and cold
   6. Solid starting materials obtained by heat
      1. Toasted preparations (Tosta)
      2. Carbons (Carbo)
      3. Ashes (Cinis)
   7. Solid preparations from plants (drying onto a vehicle)
      1. Solid preparations from fresh plants
      2. Solid preparations from plant juices or aqueous extracts
   8. Liquid solutions
   9. Compositions
      1. Compositions made by treating two or more starting materials by one or more pharmaceutical processes
      2. Compositions made by treating two or more mother tinctures with one or more mother tinctures or dilutions by one or more pharmaceutical processes
      3. Compositions made by treating two or more starting materials with one or more mother tinctures which undergo one or more pharmaceutical processes together
   10. Potentised Preparations
       1. Co-potentised preparations
       2. Potentising in an ointment base
   11. Mixtures
3. Part III Dosage forms
4. Part IV Appendices
   1. Reference List for the Appendices to chapters 2.1. to 2.6.
      1. Appendix 2.1. List of minerals, rocks and natural waters
      2. Appendix 2.2. List of starting materials of botanical origin
      3. Appendix 2.3. List of starting materials of zoological origin
      4. Appendix 2.4. Starting materials that can be described chemically
      5. Appendix 2.5. Starting material that have undergone special treatment
      6. Appendix 2.6. Compositions
   2. List of HAB monographs of substances applied in anthroposophic pharmacy
   3. Correspondence list between HAB production methods used in anthroposophic pharmacy and HPUS classes/general pharmacy

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