Drug classes

Digestive System Medication

MFDS drug class 02300

Digestive system medications are drugs that treat gastrointestinal diseases and symptoms.

Commonly used for

What kind of medicines are these?

Digestive system medications are used to relieve conditions and symptoms related to the gastrointestinal tract, such as dyspepsia, gastric inflammation, gastric ulcers, and esophagitis. They help improve digestive function or regulate excessive gastric acid secretion.

These medications suppress or neutralize gastric acid secretion to protect the gastric mucosa and promote the action of digestive enzymes or regulate gastrointestinal motility to aid in digestion. Each medication normalizes the function of the gastrointestinal system through specific mechanisms.

Good to know

Digestive system medications are a specialized group of drugs for gastrointestinal diseases, focusing on regulating the environment within the gastrointestinal tract, unlike medications from other classes. They differ in their therapeutic targets and mechanisms of action from similarly named classifications.

Medicines in this class

Even within the same class, dosage form and prescription status can differ.

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Drug classes are only attached to medicines covered by the MFDS pill identification data, so this list does not include every medicine.

SourceKorea Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (Drug Safety Korea)

Product approval information is based on drug information provided by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.
Ingredient and class descriptions are not part of MFDS data and were written separately by Cashdoc.
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