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Tizanidine 8 MG Oral Capsule — RxCUI 2723708

RxNorm drug concept · Semantic clinical drug
RxCUI 2723708 Semantic clinical drug · SCD ● Current RxNorm concept 6 FDA products 6 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

RxCUI2723708
Official nameTizanidine 8 MG Oral Capsule
Concept typeSemantic clinical drug (SCD)
RxNorm statusCurrent RxNorm concept
Also known astizanidine 8 MG (tizanidine hydrochloride 9.16 MG) Oral Capsule
FDA products mapped6
Package NDCs mapped6
Reported Medicaid activity (SDUD)3,095 prescriptions · 12 state & territory Medicaid programs · latest period Q4 2025
RxNorm release07/06/2026
Snapshot dataJul 14, 2026

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🕸️ Concept Web — How Tizanidine 8 MG Oral Capsule 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 Tizanidine 8 MG Oral Capsule RxCUI 2723708

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

  1. Ingredients 1

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

    • Tizanidine 57258
  2. Brand names 1

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

    • Zanaflex 153736
  3. Dose forms 9

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

    • Tizanidine Oral Capsule 485483
    • Tizanidine Oral Product 1162724
    • Tizanidine Pill 1162725
    • Tizanidine Oral Capsule [Zanaflex] 580266
    • Zanaflex Oral Product 1187025
    • Zanaflex Pill 1187026
    • Oral Capsule 316965
    • Oral Product 1151131
    • +1 more in this family
  4. Clinical & branded drugs 3

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

Showing up to 8 concepts per family — 13 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

  • Tizanidine 8 MG SCDC · 2723707
  • Tizanidine Oral Capsule SCDF · 485483
  • Tizanidine Oral Product SCDG · 1162724
  • Tizanidine Pill SCDG · 1162725

Brand-Name Concepts

  • Tizanidine 8 MG Oral Capsule [Zanaflex] SBD · 2723710
  • Tizanidine 8 MG [Zanaflex] SBDC · 2723709
  • Tizanidine Oral Capsule [Zanaflex] SBDF · 580266
  • Zanaflex Oral Product SBDG · 1187025
  • Zanaflex Pill SBDG · 1187026
  • Zanaflex BN · 153736

📦 FDA Products & Package NDCs

6 products · 6 package NDCs
6 package NDCs map to RxCUI 2723708 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
72888-0001-15 150 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (72888-001-15) tizanidine hydrochloride Advagen Pharma Limited 2020-05-27
72888-0002-15 150 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (72888-002-15) tizanidine hydrochloride Advagen Pharma Limited 2020-05-27
72888-0003-15 150 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (72888-003-15) tizanidine hydrochloride Advagen Pharma Limited 2020-05-27
72888-0161-15 150 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (72888-161-15) tizanidine hydrochloride Advagen Pharma Limited 2025-08-28
73352-0089-60 60 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (73352-089-60) Tizanidine Hydrochloride Trifluent Pharma, LLC 2025-09-16
73352-0090-60 60 CAPSULE in 1 BOTTLE (73352-090-60) Zanaflex Trifluent Pharma, LLC 2025-09-16
Observed labelers: Advagen Pharma Limited (4) · Trifluent Pharma, LLC (2) — 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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