An analeptic, in medicine, is a restorative, or remedies proper to restore the body, when wasted or emaciated by disease or hunger. Medicine is the branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining human health or restoring it through the treatment of disease and injury. ...
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Analeptics include all those foods or substances that are considered to be restoratives, strength promoters, comforting builders of health in times of convalescence, whether from a serious illness, a simple cold, indigestion or a hangover.
The art and preparation of the analeptic cure is not much practiced in these days of quick chemical reparation, but not so long ago, cookbooks were filled with sections on "Invalid Cookery" (often subtitled "Food for the Poor").
Think analeptic national soups -- the blood-red borscht of Russia, the potato gruel of Ireland, the West African "soup" of potato greens thickened with rice.
These compounds have been disclosed as respiratory analeptics for treatment of respiratory insufficiencies in relatively high doses, representatively 1 to 5 mg/kg/day orally and 0.1 to 3.0 mg/kg/day intravenously in animals.
Finally, almitrine, in these doses, enables the correction of respiratory insufficiency, and therefore constitutes a respiratory analeptic which is used essentially for shock treatment inasmuch as, at the said high dosages, a muscular fatigue presents a serious side effect for a patient treated therewith.
Nonetheless, as an analeptic, it was found to cause muscular tiredness or exhaustion which could be overwhelming for patients having a current propensity toward exhaustion, so that the previous main use of this product was in injectable preparations containing 1-3 mg/kg IV for use in respiratory revivification emergencies in intensive care units.
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