Officinal

As officinal: Medicinally (also offizinal, from Latin officina: delivery room, preparation room, workshop, factory) are drugs and plants or certain parts or preparations thereof, as well as manufacturing and test methods referred to by a monograph of a currently valid pharmacopoeia (z. example, the European, German ( DAB) or Austrian ( ÖAB ) Pharmacopoeia ) are characterized.

Offizin is an old German expression for the laboratory room of a pharmacy which is also still used for the sales room of a public pharmacy.