Sentences with phrase «effective analgesic»

Along with being an effective analgesic, Banamine unfortunately impairs the protective abilities of the gastrointestinal tract.

These act to immobilise prey by blocking nerve - cell conduction, but in mammals the peptides are an effective analgesic.

Playford RJ1, MacDonald CE, Calnan DP, Floyd DN, Podas T, Johnson W, Wicks AC, Bashir O, Marchbank T. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are effective analgesics but cause gastrointestinal injury.

Not exact matches

It may be quite useless in treating arthritis, but for athletes it appears to be a harmless, often effective anti-inflammatory agent and analgesic, what one physician calls «muscle - bound aspirin.»

Considered neither a stimulant nor a depressant, Butazolidin is classified as an analgesic, a painkiller very effective in alleviating inflammation of joints.

Epidurals and spinals offer laboring women the most effective form of pain relief available, and women who have used these analgesics rate their satisfaction with pain relief as very high.

Due to the central nervous system origins of fibromyalgia pain, Clauw said treatments with opioids or other narcotic analgesics usually are not effective because they do not reduce the activity of neurotransmitters in the brain.

«The intervention was effective, even though most trial participants reported pain that had been present for many years, that involved multiple sites, and that had been unsuccessfully treated with numerous analgesics,» the authors write.

Given that other analgesic regimens are effective and well tolerated, these data may be enough for some surgeons to alter practice patterns,» the study concludes.

Methylnaltrexone, a drug designed to reverse one of the most troubling problems caused by opium - based analgesics without interfering with pain relief, is rapidly effective at low doses with no apparent side effects report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center in the January 19, 2000, issue of JAMA.

Pine essential oil is believed to possess analgesic attributes and, hence, is an effective remedy for people enduring arthritis, joint pain, and rheumatic conditions.

Based on these results and clinical experience with diet - based therapies for pediatric epilepsy, a novel anti-inflammatory and analgesic application of ketogenic diet therapy would be effective, non-addictive and relatively free of major side effects.

It's most effective when it's used in combination with NSAIDs or analgesics like tramadol.

A recent article in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association provides anecdotal evidence that marijuana may be proving to be effective as an analgesic (pain relieving drug), an appetite stimulant and an anti-nausea medication in dogs with cancer and osteoarthritis.

It appears to be most effective when combined with other types of analgesic agents, for example NSAIDs, permitting the use of lower doses.

This article gives an overview of the physiology of pain, offers a discussion of a variety of analgesic agents, and provides information to help create an effective pain management protocol for dental patients.

Whereas conventional medicine can be very effective in the control of infection through the use of antibiotics and the management of pain by using analgesic drugs, the job of truly healing damaged tissues has traditionally been left up to the patient's own innate abilities.