Classification of medicinal products

All modern medicines are grouped according to the following principles:
1. Therapeutic use. For example, drugs to treat tumors, reduce blood pressure, antimicrobial.
2. Pharmacological action, i.e. Caused effect (vasodilators - dilating vessels, antispasmodics - eliminating vasospasm, analgesics - reducing painful irritation).
3. Chemical structure. Groups of drugs that are similar in structure. These are all salicylates obtained on the basis of acetylsalicylic acid - aspirin, salicylamide, methyl salicylate, etc.
4. Nosological principle. A number of different drugs used to treat a strictly defined disease (eg, agents for the treatment of myocardial infarction, bronchial asthma, etc.).
The classification of medicines proposed by academician MD was adopted. Mashkovsky.
1. Drugs that act mainly on the central nervous system: anesthetics, sleeping pills, psychotropic drugs (tranquilizers, neuroleptic, sedatives, antidepressants, stimulants); Anticonvulsant (antiepileptic medicines); Medicines for the treatment of parkinsonism, analgesics, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory drugs, antitussives.
2. Medicines with action in the end of efferent (centrifugal) nerves: cholinolytics, ganglioblokirujushchie, kurarepodobnye, etc.
3. Medicines that act primarily on sensitive nerve endings, including the mucous membrane and skin: local anesthetics, enveloping and adsorbing agents, astringents, emetic, expectorants and laxatives.
4. Medications that act on the cardiovascular system.
5. Medicines that enhance the excretory function of the kidneys.
6. Cholagogue medicines.
7. Drugs affecting the musculature of the uterus.
8. Means that affect the metabolic processes: hormones, vitamins and their analogs, enzymes, histamine and antihistamines, biogenic, etc.
9. Antimicrobials: antibiotics, sulfonamides, nitrofuran derivatives, antituberculosis, antisyphilitic drugs, antiviral drugs, etc., antiseptics (group of halogens, oxidants, acids and alkalis, alcohols, phenols, dyes, tar, resins, etc.).
10. Preparations for the treatment of malignant neoplasms.
11. Diagnostic tools.
12. Other drugs of different pharmacological groups.