The leaves, and to a lesser extent the flowers, are mildly diuretic, emollient, lenitive, and mildly sedative.
While men were more likely to become uninhibited and loud-mouthed, women more frequently said the alcohol acted as a sedative.
Today, this species is a sedative given in mild form to infants during teething and is used in commercial diuretics.
Marijuana was sort of a sedative sort of drug as far as the screws and prison authorities were concerned.
Until twenty years ago the main group of sedative drugs were the barbiturates, now almost entirely replaced by the benzodiazepines.
Research has shown that the flower of the mimosa tree has a sedative effect.
Studies show sedative herbs gently depress the central nervous system, thus calming you and inducing sleep.
Butterbur should be considered for treating seasonal allergic rhinitis when the sedative effects of antihistamines need to be avoided.
Antidepressant and sedative drugs gave troublesome side effects and only temporary relief.
These heavy mineral substances tend to create more grounding sedative effects that help calm the mind and emotions.
The second-generation antihistamines were developed principally to avoid sedative actions.
In pharmacological interventions, analgesic and sedative agents were more often used concomitantly than individually.
Their findings supported the use of hypnosis as a substitute for sedative drug use.
Mechanical ventilation and use of paralytic and sedative agents impair communication between patients and others.
Thus, sedative effects potentially could accumulate with repeated administration.
In most cases patients did not respond to the usual doses of antipsychotics and sedative agents.
Tolerance towards the sedative effects seems to develop before tolerance to the stimulatory effects.
Limited evidence from one animal study suggests that hops may potentiate the effects of sedative drugs.
Staff had trouble controlling the man and a doctor prescribed an oral sedative.
Effie put down the medical bag, took out a hypodermic and filled it with a powerful sedative.
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They pinned her to the floor, swabbed her arm and injected the sedative in her.
Biopsies can be uncomfortable and you may be given a mild sedative or local anaesthetic.
Before the tears came, Doctor Lee mercifully injected Robert with a powerful sedative.
Medically, basil has been used as a sedative, an expectorant, and a laxative, but it is not used much in herbal preparations today.
Jatamansi is an effective sedative and brain tonic, enhancing concentration and memory.
Patients only need a mild sedative, and go home from the hospital the next day.
General anesthesia is not needed, but you may be given a mild sedative to help you relax.
Dr. Schafer uses a local anesthetic combined with a mild intravenous sedative before making an incision a few millimeters long under each arm.
The doctor can give a mild sedative or spray some anaesthetic on the back of your throat beforehand.
He was convinced that this sedative would leave the horse's system in a week, or at most a fortnight.
She was not only on Oxycontin, but on a sleeping pill and a sedative for anxiety.
Given its neuropharmacological mechanisms, combination of kava with other sedative drugs, including ethanol, is not recommended.
The fish in the aquarium act as a sedative to quiet and soothe the irritation of the long wait.
Caffeine, for example, is a powerful stimulant, while the nicotine in cigarettes is a sedative.
Currently, valerian is employed as a sleep aid or sedative and as a gastrointestinal spasmolytic.
You can mix peppermint with chamomile tea, which also is anti-inflammatory and has slight sedative qualities that may help relax a child in pain.
Bromide is a naturally occurring trace chemical which has a sedative effect.
It also acted as a stimulant, a sedative, an appetite suppressant, and fed smokers' addictions.
He might spot them in time to hit me with another dose of the sedative and then I'd be in deep, deep trouble.
Andrew had filled the syringe with chloral hydrate, a powerful sedative, and had positioned himself at Aridene's side.
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The primary active metabolite, trichloroethanol, may have more sedative activity than chloral hydrate.
Further studies are needed to determine if hops acts as a mild sedative independently, as a synergist, or is absent of sedative action.
Patients typically need large doses of sedative hypnotic drugs and four-point restraints during this stage.
It is well known that many drugs such as benzodiazepines and phenobarbital possess anxiolytic and sedative effects.
Peppermint also helps to allay nausea and acts as a soothing sedative to induce relaxation and sleep.
This herb has been proven to induce sleep and have a sedative effect, which can help pain sufferers sleep better.
He was still feeling a bit groggy, probably due to a sedative given to him by a nurse at the infirmary.
Because it appears to potentiate gamma-aminobutyric acid inhibitory neurotransmitters, it may potentiate anesthesia's sedative effects.
A pre-med is a type of sedative that is used to relax you before the operation.
Dark blue, on the other hand, has a sedative effect, and can make some people feel melancholy and dejected.
Interactions with benzodiazepines, pentobarbital, and other central nervous system depressants can yield additional sedative effects.
Where medication is judged necessary, oral anxiolytics, such as lorazepam, may be available, as may a parenteral sedative, typically diazepam.
A sleeping child is ideal, and some examiners even use a sedative to facilitate this.
Medically, basil has been used as a sedative, an expectorant, and a laxative but it is not used much in herbal preparations today.
Unknown to the Pastors however, the pills the quartermasters supplied them were vitamins and not the sedative drugs.
But there is a Caribbean calm, intense in the tropical sun, and the sedative wash of the waves.
Corydalis is a European sedative herb that addresses insomnia that stems from nervousness, agitation, depression or anxiety.
He described how he drugged Jaruwan in her room by serving her a drink laced with a sedative.
These include normal doses of anaesthetic agents, overdoses of sedative drugs or alcohol, and a generalized epileptic seizure.
Tea made from the bark has been used as an antiseptic, an antidote to snakebites, a laxative, and a sedative.
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One of the most unfortunate and best known examples of this was the mild sedative and anti-emetic Thalidomide.
This botanical supplement is helpful for anxiety, and it can be used as a sedative, hypnotic and antispasmodic.
He said there was no truth to the rumour that he had his vet administer a sedative to his horse before the race.
This type of sedation involves swallowing sedative tablets or syrup.
Had downtown been slipped a sedative, asked to be awoken when there was News?
He should omit sedative drugs and reduce his alcohol intake.
Also, skullcap and passionflower are supposed to have sedative effects.
What they found is that blocking the sounds of the operating room with white noise did not decrease sedative requirements of listening to operating room sounds.
Antihistamines are sometimes used but mainly for sedative effect.
Muscle relaxants should be prescribed only after failure of analgesic and sedative regimens to optimise ventilatory support or reduce oxygen consumption.
Just as Palmer, taken in sixty-second doses, seems relaxed, so, measured over hours, he seems in need of a sedative.
At 6.23 p.m., a doctor administered the first drug, which corrections officials identified as the sedative midazolam.
Ohio used a mix of midazolam, a sedative, with hydromorphone, a powerful narcotic.
They gave a sedative to Methos, the alpha-male wolf, because he seemed particularly anxious.
Because of its sedative nature and narcotic abilities, leaves were mixed with other herbs for the treatment of whooping and spasmodic coughs in children.
Is it the sedative administered by Sheeran or is it something else?
An antihistamine such as hydroxyzine hydrochloride taken before bedtime is often quite helpful because it provides both antipruritic and sedative effects.
Hart explains that the gas acts as a mild analgesic and a sedative.
In animal and clinical studies, valerian has proven to act as a mild sedative and tranquilizer, thereby aiding sleep, even among chronic pain sufferers.
To help you relax, you may receive a sedative intravenously.
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Whether as stimulant or a sedative such tales must have stirred the deepest wells of political consciousness in the most backward of backwoodsmen.
Lavender has sedative effects comparable to drugs such as Valium.
Other types of drugs, including barbiturates, sedative antidepressants, and antipsychotic drugs, are less preferred because of their side effects.
Early tolerance develops not only to the pleasurable euphoriant effects of heroin, but also to the analgesic, sedative, emetic, and respiratory depressant effects.
If you had the sedative with you, why did you try outdrinking him?
The scent of spikenard, not to be confused with American spikenard, a stimulant, is, surprisingly, sedative, since it increases serotonin availability.
A cardiac sedative, hypotensive and relaxing nervine, Motherwort strengthens and normalizes heart function.
In this study, diazepam was used as a positive control as it is presently used for its anxiolytic, sedative and myorelaxant effects.
Add nutmeg, which contains a natural sedative called myristin and you have a guaranteed sleep potion.
An autopsy revealed she had powerful sedative Lorazepam, also known as Ativan, in her system.
Investigators found drugs in the room including the muscle relaxants Clonazepam and Soma and the powerful sedative diazepam.
Promethazine hydrochloride is a phenothiazine derivative used in cough syrups for its antihistaminic, antiemetic, and sedative effects.
McGuire received a combination of the sedative midazolam and pain killer hydromorphone.
Even with an elephant dose of sedative, the horse was still kicking at him when he tried to clean the wound.
After finishing top of the Burghley leaderboard 12 months ago, Clifton Promise tested positive for the banned substance reserpine, a sedative.
They included drugs used in the UK, such as benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepines, barbiturates and sedative antihistamines.
One of the oldest groups of sedative drugs, the barbiturates, is a derivative of barbituric acid.
Finally, Eschscholzia californica is an herb that helps with pain and is also a good sedative at night.
It is traditionally used for its nootropic effects and as a gentle nervine tonic and sedative.
It can still be found in herbals and such, which describe it as a sedative and cough suppressant.
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The Roman military surgeons used a cocktail of plants, which created a sedative similar to modern anesthesia.
Soon arose the notion of a tranquilizer which was quite different from any sedative or stimulant.
Some drugs used as entheogens include kava which can act as a stimulant, a sedative, a euphoriant and an anesthetic.
Taken together, the plant appears to contain phytochemical constituents, notably one of which is asarone with strong sedative properties.
The scientists say investigations of newer psychotropic drugs with fewer sedative effects will clarify the connection to hip fractures.
By 2006, he was using daily, including 8mg per day of Xanax, 3-4 tablets of Ambien, 16 tablets of opioid analgesics, as well as a sedative.
He later claimed that he was raped by another man at the age of 19 after being given the sedative Quaalude.
A report suggested Night Nurse, which contains the sedative promethazine, could impair performance in pilots.
Leonurus cardiaca is a herb with widespread use in Europe for its cardiotonic, anxiolytic and sedative properties.
Millions of people regularly take drugs such as anti-depressants, painkillers, anti-histamines and cough mixtures, all of which can have a sedative effect.
The history of GMP began in 1941 after nearly 300 people were killed by one's company's sulfathiazole tablets, a sulfa drug tainted with the sedative, phenobarbital.
The antitussive, astringent, diaphoretic, diuretic, sedative, and analgesic effects attributed to the drug have not yet been widely supported by experimental data.
Anxiolysis A moderate form of dental sedation, anxiolysis sedation uses sedative pills taken an hour before the appointment to achieve relaxation during an appointment.
Collected demographic and perioperative data included age of the child, procedure, any preexisting medical illness, any regular medication and use of sedative premedication.
But no sedative or sleeping pill was found in his possession.
Silexan showed no unwanted sedative effects and no signs of tachyphylaxis.

Now, no sedative or nauseant is known that does not lock up the natural secretions and thus lessen the digestive powers.
It is also employed as a sedative and errhine, and in a vast number of other indications.
He should be a sedative and an inspiration to the patient, not an irritant or an excitant.
The pack is a derivative, sedative, sudorific and stimulator of cutaneous excretion.
It is also used in medicine as a sedative, refrigerant, and diaphoretic, and as a cooling diuretic.
The last is employed as a sedative, refrigerant, and astringent wash, in various affections.
Cold affusions and shower baths have been employed for their revulsive and sedative effect in mania.
Katharine had to go to the bookcase and choose a portly volume in sleek, yellow calf, which had directly a sedative effect upon both her parents.
Look in at him from time to time through the night, and give him another dose of the sedative mixture if he wakes.
Emerson knew that bromides had sedative properties and could therefore be useful in the treatment of 'tension' headaches.
The sedative effect of lead lotion in pruritus is well known.
I put some harmless sedative in your tea that you might sleep soundly, and not awaken until we were well on our way.
This piece of information had by no means a sedative effect.
If she had possessed any sedative drug she would have taken it.
The drought which Reuben administered was of a sedative and narcotic quality, and secured the patient sound and undisturbed slumbers.
Viburnum has been called a uterine sedative, whatever that may be.
I am a little nervous, and I find my hookah an invaluable sedative.

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