When you swallow medicine in pill form, how does the medicine in the pill “activate” in your body and start working?

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I know it varies from medicine to medicine but I was looking for a more general explanation.

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The medicine does not get activated what happens is that is dissolved in water if it was a dry pill and absorbed by your body and interact with the different cells and other part of the body.

Most medicines are just molecules that do not do anything by themself but they interact with.

You can compare it to salt that you put in water and drink the water. The salt is not activated just dissolved and you can tase it when it interacts with the taste bud on your tongue.

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