Can anyone offer a suitable extraction method for obtaining (water insoluble) loperamide hcl from Immodium ad? Bulk loperamide is terribly expensive.
The inactive incredients are the following: Dibasic Calcium Phosphate, Magnesium Stearate, Microcrystalline Cellulose, Colloidal Silicon Dioxide, FD&C Blue #1, D&C Yellow #10.
Alternately, if someone could explain that these chemicals would not be harmful if (hypothetically) actively transported across the blood-brain barrier, this would also suffice.