In medical products, glycerol has been used as enema and syrup for a long time. The amount of glycerol is increasing in the medicines with dressing as the object of protection. The use of glycerol in pharmaceutical products has two aspects:
- As a base agent, it can be used in fat emulsion rehydration, antibiotics and other products as solvents, instead of ethanol as an extractant of Chinese herbal medicine, or as a moisturizer with anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect.
- Use the effect of glycerol itself, such as enema. Laxatives, intravenous drugs to reduce intracranial intraocular pressure, and drugs to treat trigeminal neuralgia.
The pharmacological action of enema is based on the physicochemical action of intestinal mucosa.
Nitroglycerin, a derivative of glycerol, is a coronary vasodilator, which can be used to treat angina pectoris, asthma, congestive heart failure and to lower blood pressure.
Glycerol can be used as plasticizer in cellulose semi-permeable hollow fibers of artificial permeable membranes.
In addition, glycerol, a component of artificial joints being studied, can be used as a thin plate for potentiometric titration of organisms and as a reagent for the determination of ammonia in blood.
