The reason for the drug’s classification is as follows:
(i) The pharmacological impact is based on:
To physicians this definition is helpful. It provides a whole array of drugs to classify drugs to different diseases.
(ii) Based on action on the drugs:
This is based on a drug’s action on a specific biochemical process.
(iii) Building on chemical structure:
The range of drugs that share common structural characteristics and have similar pharmacological activty
(iv) Building on molecular objectives:
Many medications have the same action function on targets. In such cases this distinction is useful.