Meloxicam salts (sodium) including salts of meloxicam with basic amino acids (L-lysine or L-arginine) for oral administration preferably in the form of meloxicam-meglumin salt monohydrate and dihydrate

摘要

A solid pharmaceutical for oral administration of meloxicam from which the active substance is rapidly released and absorbed for pain therapy. The meloxicam is present in the form of a salt with an inorganic or organic base, optionally together with conventional excipients and/or carriers in a rapidly decomposing tablet produced by direct tabletting. The process for preparing an orally administered solid pharmaceutical preparation of meloxicam comprises optionally pulverized meloxicam salt of an inorganic or organic base is intimately mixed with conventional powdered excipients and/or carriers and compressed directly into tablets with no granulation of the powder. Also described is a crystalline meloxicam meglumin salt monohydrate and crystalline meloxicam meglumin salt dihydrate and process for preparing them and pharmaceutical form containing them.