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Menthol 10 MG/ML / methyl salicylate 150 MG/ML Topical Cream — RxCUI 259203

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 259203 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 3 FDA products 3 package NDCs Snapshot Jul 14, 2026

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What you’re looking at: the standardized identity of one medicine, as the U.S. drug-data system sees it. Below — every FDA-listed product, package code, price benchmark, and billing code that maps to it.

🗂️ Key Facts

RxCUI259203
Official nameMenthol 10 MG/ML / methyl salicylate 150 MG/ML Topical Cream
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known asmenthol 1 % / methyl salicylate 15 % Topical Cream
FDA products mapped3
Package NDCs mapped3
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)9,261 prescriptions · 3 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

📖 Skip the Codes — Read It in Plain English.

Our pharmacist-built guide to Menthol: what it is, how it’s used, side effects, and interactions.

📗 Our plain-language guide HelloPharmacist
  • Mostly for temporary relief of minor aches and pains in muscles and joints, like those from arthritis, backache, strains, sprains and bruises. Some products are for other things, s...
  • It depends on the product. Many creams, gels and patches are limited to about 3 to 4 times a day, and patches also have a time limit, often 8 hours. Follow your product label and a...
  • A brief burning feeling can happen when you first apply it and usually fades in several days. But if you get severe burning pain, swelling or blistering, stop using it and call you...
  • No. Don't use menthol products with a heating pad, and avoid local heat or direct sunlight on the area. Rare cases of serious burns have been reported.
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🕸️ Concept Web — How Menthol 10 MG/ML / methyl salicylate 150 MG/ML T... Connects

One RxCUI never lives alone. Follow the path from the raw ingredient down to the exact strength-and-form concepts FDA products carry — every stop is a real RxNorm concept with its own identifier. Hover or focus any chip for what it means.
This page's concept Menthol 10 MG/ML / methyl salicylate 150 MG/ML Topical Cream RxCUI 259203

Every web starts here: one RxCUI, one fixed meaning in the RxNorm vocabulary.

  1. Ingredients 3

    The active substance itself — no strength, form, or brand attached yet.

    • Menthol 6750
    • Methyl salicylate 29787
    • Menthol / methyl salicylate 466537
  2. Brand names 1

    The same medicine's trade names. A brand name alone says nothing about strength or form.

    • Thera-Gesic 94296
  3. Dose forms 6

    The ingredient poured into a form — tablet, solution, cream — still without one fixed strength.

    • Menthol / methyl salicylate Topical Cream 314003
    • Menthol / methyl salicylate Topical Product 1159807
    • Menthol / methyl salicylate Topical Cream [Thera-Gesic] 724159
    • Thera-Gesic Topical Product 1186105
    • Topical Cream 316982
    • Topical Product 1151122
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 4

    Ingredient + strength + dose form. These are the concepts real FDA products actually carry.

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 14 of 14 stored related concepts drawn.
These are official RxNorm vocabulary relationships — how concepts name and organize the same medicine. They do not establish therapeutic equivalence or substitutability: two concepts appearing in one web is never a statement that products can be swapped.

🔀 Generic ⇄ Brand Crosswalk

The same medicine has an unbranded (generic) identity and one or more brand-name identities — each with its own RxCUI. This is a naming relationship in RxNorm, not a statement that any two products are substitutable.

Generic (Clinical) Concepts

  • Menthol 10 MG/ML SCDC · 340163
  • Methyl salicylate 150 MG/ML SCDC · 340104
  • Menthol / methyl salicylate Topical Cream SCDF · 314003
  • Menthol / methyl salicylate Topical Product SCDG · 1159807

Brand-Name Concepts

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

3 products · 3 package NDCs
3 package NDCs map to RxCUI 259203 in the current snapshot — up to 50 per page. Each linked NDC opens its full package page.
Package NDC Package Brand / generic name Labeler Marketing start
00178-0320-03 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (0178-0320-03) / 85 g in 1 TUBE Theragesic Mission Pharmacal Company 1981-01-01
00536-1101-45 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (0536-1101-45) / 85 g in 1 TUBE Rugby Pain Relieving Analgesic Rugby Laboratories 2016-05-11
72162-2156-02 1 TUBE in 1 CARTON (72162-2156-2) / 85 g in 1 TUBE Rugby Pain Relieving Analgesic Bryant Ranch Prepack 2024-02-02
Observed labelers: Bryant Ranch Prepack (1) · Mission Pharmacal Company (1) · Rugby Laboratories (1) — this is the FDA-listed mapping footprint, not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.

🗃️ Sources & Limits

Atlas generation902fddb9-e9c1-4004-bf4c-dba4d51037c7
openFDA export observedJul 14, 2026
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Methodology2026-07-full-catalog-v1
  • A shared RxCUI does not prove interchangeability. Products mapped to the same concept are not thereby equivalent or substitutable — equivalence is a separate, product-level determination.
  • Listing here does not establish approval or coverage. Appearing in this snapshot is a data observation, not an FDA approval status or a payer coverage decision.
  • Missing data never means zero. A silent dataset (no price, no billing code, no utilization) means no observation — not that the real-world value is zero.
  • Counts describe the mapping footprint. Product, package, and labeler counts are the FDA-listed mapping footprint in this snapshot — not sales, inventory, availability, or market share.
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