Abstract: Pharmaceutical composition in a dry powder form comprising at least one hydrophobic active principle, at least one water-soluble excipient and at least one surfactant, wherein the particles in said dry powder state have a Volume Mean Diameter VMDd greater than the Volume Mean Diameter VMDw of particles in a suspension obtained from said pharmaceutical composition at standard conditions of dispersion in a water-medium. It is also disclosed a process to prepare such dry composition and an extemporaneous suspension for inhalation therapy obtainable from said dry composition.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical composition in a dry powder form comprising at least one hydrophobic active principle, at least one water-soluble excipient and at least one surfactant, wherein the particles in said dry powder state have a Volume Mean Diameter VMDd greater than the Volume Mean Diameter VMDw of particles in a suspension obtained from said pharmaceutical composition at standard conditions of dispersion in a water-medium. It is also disclosed a process to prepare such dry composition and an extemporaneous suspension for inhalation therapy obtainable from said dry composition.

Abstract: The present invention describes a quaternary composition consisting of propolis delivered in a hydrophilic carrier (cyclodextrin and cyclodextrin derivatives) and co ground with the aid of two compounds for the preparation thereof in the form of a finely divided powder. The composition exhibits advantageous dissolution characteristics in aqueous environments compared to native propolis, hence resulting in greater bioavailability of the active ingredients contained therein.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical composition in a dry powder form comprising at least one hydrophobic active principle, at least one water-soluble excipient and at least one surfactant, wherein the particles in said dry powder state have a Volume Mean Diameter VMDd greater than the Volume Mean Diameter VMDw of particles in a suspension obtained from said pharmaceutical composition at standard conditions of dispersion in a water-medium. It is also disclosed a process to prepare such dry composition and an extemporaneous suspension for inhalation therapy obtainable from said dry composition.

Abstract: The present invention describes a quaternary composition consisting of propolis delivered in a hydrophilic carrier (cyclodextrin and cyclodextrin derivatives) and co ground with the aid of two compounds for the preparation thereof in the form of a finely divided powder. The composition exhibits advantageous dissolution characteristics in aqueous environments compared to native propolis, hence resulting in greater bioavailability of the active ingredients contained therein.

Abstract: A ternary composition comprising an active substance, a hydrophilic or hydrophobic carrier and a co-grinding auxiliary substance and a process for the preparation thereof by the co-grinding of the thee components, in which said process allows operating with drastically reduced co-grinding times with respect to the known art and to obtain ternary compositions in which the active substance shows characteristics of amorphisation, solubility and dissolution speed as requested for the various uses.

Abstract: Salts of asiatic and madecassic acid with pharmaceutically acceptable organic bases, suitable for the preparation of pharmaceutical and cosmetic compositions for the topical and systemic treatment of erithema, varicose ulcers, venous insufficiency, bedsores, delayed cicatrization, ambustions, traumatic and surgery wounds, alloeosises of the cutaneous trophism, ophthalmic alloeosises and inflammatory processes.

Abstract: A description is given here of novel solid and stable derivatives of (−)-verbenone having formula (I) wherein, when X=O Z=H, ═CHAr, ═C(OH)COOEt, ═NOR; Y=H, NH2, NH3+X1−, NHCOAr, NHCOR, NHCONHR, NHCONHAr, X1-=pharmaceutically acceptable anion; Ar-aryl or heteroaryl, preferably phenyl, 4-chlorophenyl, 2-furyl, 2-thienyl, 2-hydroxyphenyl, 2-acetoxyphenyl; R=H, C1-C4 alkyl, C4-C6 cycloalkyl, CH2COOH, CH2COOEt, CH2COCH3, CH2CN, CH2COCH2COOEt, CH2C6H5; and, when X=dimethylamino, diethylamino, pyrrolidino, piperidino or morpholino: Y=H; Z=H, CONHAr, COHNR; Ar=aryl, preferably phenyl; R=H, C1-C4 alkyl, C4-C6 cycloakyl. A description is also given of the processes for the preparation of these derivatives and of the novel intermediates used in those processes. The novel derivatives are characterized by their solubility in water; some of them also have a high anti-inflammatory activity.