page_title: Ambroxol
section_title: Medical uses
hierarchical_section_title: Ambroxol / Medical uses
caption_attribution_description: Ambroxol hydrochloride tablets (generic drug) Antbron Tablets 15 mg. Producted by Towa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan 日本語: 一般名: アンブロキソール塩酸塩錠 / 販売名: アントブロン錠 15mg （製造販売元: 東和薬品株式会社） 1992年7月 販売開始 2007年 「アントブロン錠」 から 「アントブロン錠 15mg」 に販売名を変更
context_page_description: Ambroxol is a drug that breaks up phlegm, used in the treatment of respiratory diseases associated with viscid or excessive mucus. Recently, a hypothesis suggested that it may have a potential role in treatment of Paget's disease of bone, Parkinsonism, and other common diseases of aging-associated diseases involving dysfunction of autophagy. Ambroxol is often administered as an active ingredient in cough syrup.
  It was patented in 1966 and came into medical use in 1979.
context_section_description: Ambroxol is indicated as "secretolytic therapy in bronchopulmonary diseases associated with abnormal mucus secretion and impaired mucus transport. It promotes mucus clearance, facilitates expectoration and eases productive cough, allowing patients to breathe freely and deeply".
  There are many different formulations developed since the first marketing authorisation in 1978. Ambroxol is available as syrup, tablets, pastilles, dry powder sachets, inhalation solution, drops and ampules as well as effervescent tablets.
  Ambroxol also provides pain relief in acute sore throat. Pain in sore throat is the hallmark of acute pharyngitis. Sore throat is usually caused by a viral infection. The infection is self limited and the patient recovers normally after a few days. What is most bothering for the patient is the continuous pain in the throat maximized when the patient is swallowing. The main goal of treatment is thus to reduce pain. The main property of ambroxol for treating sore throat is the local anaesthetic effect, described first in the late 1970s, but explained and confirmed in more recent work.
caption: Ambroxol hydrochloride tablets in Japan
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