Bronchodilator expectorant elixir

Abstract

A bronchodilator expectorant composition containing a sympathomimetic amine bronchodilator, the xanthine bronchodilator theophylline, guaiacol or a water soluble form thereof and a sedative.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A bronchodilator-expectorant composition comprised of a solution containing at least 40% by volume of water and characterized by containing in each 5 milliliters thereof 16.6 to 175 mg. of theophylline, 7.5 to 350 mg. of glyceryl guaiacolate or an equivalent solubilizing weight of potassium guaiacol sulfonate or guaiacol, and from 1/6 to a full therapeutic dose of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, methoxyphenamine, or protokylol, and from 2 to 35 mg. of cyclopal, aprobarbital, butabarbital, or pentobarbital .[...]. .Iadd.wherein the amount of theophylline dissolved in said solution exceeds the saturated solution amount thereof in the solvents employed in said solution, and the theophylline in solution which exceeds said saturated solution amount is solubilized and held in solution by said glyceryl guaiacolate or equivalent solubilizing weight of potassium guaiacol sulfonate or guaiacol. .Iaddend. 
     
     
       2. The composition of claim 1 containing up to 20% by volume of alcohol. 
     
     
       3. The composition of claim 1 containing 4 to 25 mg. of ephedrine hydrochloride or ephedrine sulfate and from 2 to 15 mg. of butabarbital per 5 milliliters of elixir.