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WHY SOME MEDICINES ARE IN CAPSULE?

In recent days the emerging of disease has increased to withstand the situation our medicinal technology also improving. If you went to a medical shop or hospital you have seen different medicine. They are in tablet, tonic, capsule, injection dose form. How the tablet different from capsules? What is inside the capsule? Why should not we crush the capsule? 
Capsule means the medication enclosed inside the outer shell. There are two main types of capsules are hard-shell capsules and soft gel capsules. HSC contains dry medication power and liquid form (LFHC) . This LFHC contains more than one drugs. A soft gel capsule is also known as a liquid gel. These capsules are opaque contains medication suspended in gelatin or similar substance easily digested. 
Both the tablets and capsules contain the medicine but the fact is drugs inside the capsule if mixed with gastric acid results in not getting enough of the medication. Drugs are prepared in form of a capsule the outer covering protects the drugs from the action of gastric acid . When it enters the intestine it's absorbed into the circulation. As the outer shell of the capsule broken into the digestive tract and absorbed into the bloodstream. The direct entry into the blood help in curing the disease in a fast manner. 
While tablets are drugs that can be easily absorbed from the stomach and sometime also from the intestine. This will take time to enter the blood. Open the capsule is risk leads to alter the way of drug absorbed by your body. 

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