Mon-Fri 9:00-18:00 CET+39 095 7211344info@vitasanlabs.com

Family · Pharmaceutical analytical standards

Pilocarpine

An alkaloid extracted from the leaves of jaborandi (Pilocarpus), a South American shrub: it has been used in glaucoma eye drops for over a century and today also to relieve dry mouth. This family brings together the active ingredient, pharmacopoeial impurities, labelled standards and other impurities.

Did you know?It is the substance used in the sweat test for diagnosing cystic fibrosis: applied to the skin with a weak electric current (iontophoresis), it stimulates the sweat to be analysed.

Pilocarpine HClGo to the active ingredient →

EDQM standards 3

The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.

Need a molecule you cannot find?

Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.