Pharmaceutical Inorganic Chemistry, B.Pharmacy I year I semester Subject

1. Mrs. Dipali M.Kulkarni,
Assistant Professor,
Yash Institute of Pharmacy,
Aurangabad.
ASTRINGENTS

2. ASTRINGENTS
Agents which are applied locally and gives surface protein
precipitation action.
Cause contraction and wrinkling of the tissue
Reduces the cell permeability
Constrict the local blood vessels
Inhibit the transcapillary movement of plasma protein

3. The net effects:
Anti-inflammatory
effect – by decreasing
blood supply to site of
injury
Decrease blood lose
by coagulating plasma
protein
Antiperspirant effect –
by decreasing
secretion of sweating
by decreasing the size
of pores of skin
Antimicrobial – by
protein precipitation
reaction in microbes

13. Thank you