Excipients commonly used as tablet binders are

Adhesive refers to the excipient that relies on its own viscosity to give the non-viscous or insufficiently viscous material a suitable viscosity. Tablets commonly used adhesives: starch syrup, syrup, glue syrup and other traditional adhesives; cellulose derivatives and polymers, such as hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC), ethylcellulose (EC), sodium carboxymethylcellulose (CMC-Na), polyvinylpropanone (PVP), gelatin, polyethylene glycol, etc.. Ethanol is the common solvent.