Development of Composition, Technology and Testing of Polycomponent Suppositories With Hemp Seedling Extract

Abstract

Hemorrhoids are one of the most common pathologies among rectal diseases, which most often affects residents of large cities around the world. This fact is explained primarily by the fact that the development of hemorrhoids is facilitated by a sedentary lifestyle of the urban population, bad habits, irregular and unbalanced nutrition, and abuse of fast-food products. The most effective way to treat hemorrhoids is surgery. However, drug therapy is no less important, both at the stage of conservative treatment and in the postoperative period. Most often, hormonal and antibacterial drugs are used to treat hemorrhoids. However, as medical practice shows, their use does not always provide a long-lasting and sustainable antihemorrhoidal effect, and is also characterized by a number of side effects associated with the possibility of systemic absorption of the active components of the drugs. In this regard, the search and development of new safe and effective drugs for the treatment and prevention of exacerbations of hemorrhoids is an urgent task of modern pharmaceutical science. When designing drugs for the treatment of hemorrhoids, it is necessary to take into account the combined clinical picture of this disease, including such manifestations as swelling, inflammation, pain, itching and burning in the rectal area. Thus, it seems appropriate to create a multifunctional antihemorrhoidal drug, which includes components of anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and anesthetic action. It is possible to ensure such a rational combination by combining synthetic drugs and complexes of biologically active substances of plant origin One of the compositions suitable for the development of an antihemorrhoidal drug is, in our opinion, the combined presence of benzocaine and dry herb extract. Benzocaine is well known as an affordable, effective and safe local anesthetic used for local pain relief. Hemp sapling herb, in turn, is often used in folk medicine as a wound-healing, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, decongestant for the treatment of bruises, burns, infected wounds and ulcers of various etiologies. The most rational form for the combination of benzocaine and dry sapling herb extract proposed above seems to be suppositories. In this regard, the purpose of this study was to develop the composition, technology and testing of anti-hemorrhoidal suppositories from the sapling grass with dry extract and benzocaine. It has been established that the developed recipe for rectal suppositories on a hydrophilic basis containing polyethylene oxide 400 and 1500 is distinguished by the necessary technological properties, high bioavailability and meets the requirements of the State Pharmacopoeia of the Russian Federation XV edition.