How to tell the authenticity of Antelope Cold Capsules?

Antelope Cold Capsules are a very common Chinese patent medicine and can be used to treat many diseases. In life, many people are prone to misunderstandings when buying medicine to treat diseases. There are real and fake antelope cold capsules, and you need to be careful to distinguish them. There are many ways to distinguish the authenticity of Antelope Cold Capsules, including the color of the medicine. So how do you tell the authenticity of Antelope Cold Capsules?

The main ingredients of antelope cold capsules are antelope horn, burdock seeds, light soy sauce, honeysuckle, schizonepeta, forsythia, light bamboo leaves, platycodon, peppermint oil (or menthol), and licorice. The combination of these medicines can clear away heat and relieve exterior symptoms. Therefore, Antelope Cold Capsules can be used for influenza, colds and coughs, dizziness, fever, and sore throat.

There are several ways to identify Antelope Cold Capsules:

1. The drug approval number should be visible on the drug packaging: " National Drug Approval Number H (or ZSJBF) + 8 digits", which means the drug is approved for production and marketing by the State Drug Administration. The letter H represents chemical drugs, Z traditional Chinese medicine, S biological products, J domestic sub-packaging of imported drugs, B drugs with auxiliary therapeutic effects, and F pharmaceutical excipients.

2. If there is no "National Medicine Approval Number" on the package, it is definitely not a medicine: you can also log in to the National Drug Administration data query, enter the drug name or the letters and 8 numbers after the "National Medicine Approval Number" to search.

3. If the approval number is: X drug preparation character H (Z) + 4-digit year number + 4-digit serial number, such approval number is a hospital preparation and can only be used in the hospital and cannot be sold in other hospitals and pharmacies.

4. If the expiration date is not indicated or changed on the packaging of the medicine: if the production batch number is not indicated or changed, the medicine should not be purchased if it has exceeded the expiration date.