From this article you will learn about such a long-known and widely used drug as validol: from what it helps, how it is applied and what effects it has.
Contents of the article:
- Pain in the heart
- Stress and emotional excitement
- Motion sickness syndrome, or "sea sickness"
- Usage for pregnancy
The following validol actions are indicated by the instruction for the drug:
- Vasodilator. Expansion of the vessels is achieved due to the reflex relaxation of their walls under the influence of menthol.
- Sedative. The soothing effect of the drug is achieved through esters of valeric acid in the composition. That is, the preparation contains the concentrated active substance of the valerian root.
- Analgesic. This effect is achieved by activating the release of special biologically active substances: endorphins and enkephalins, better known as the "hormones of happiness and pleasure."
Validol in no case can be considered a first aid for pain in the heart - angina pectoris.
This drug is not claimed in any clinical protocol of the world as a means for preventing oxygen starvation of the myocardium and preventing infarction.Usually validol is in every home and car medicine chest. This is an affordable and relatively safe medicine that is dispensed from pharmacies without a prescription. It is most often recommended for use by therapists, cardiologists, neurologists and psychologists. These same specialists should consult before buying any form of medication for their own first aid kit.
Next, you will find out exactly how and with what diseases the validol intake will help.
Pain in the heart
Usually, heart pains are ischemic in nature and arise against a spasm of blood vessels that feed the heart. The heart muscle is very sensitive to lack of oxygen and signals a person about their threatening condition with pain. This condition is called angina or angina pectoris. Validol can help with a mild form of angina in a young patient without other severe cardiac diagnoses.
I want to emphasize that the expansion of the vessels of the myocardium - coronary arteries - is a fickle and unstable effect of the drug. In contrast to nitroglycerin recommended by the World Association of Cardiologists, validol can not be used as the main drug for first aid in case of threatening myocardial infarction and severe form of angina.
Stress and emotional excitement
Validol quite effectively and quickly removes anxiety and anxiety by releasing neurotransmitters and hormones of happiness. As a combined scheme, it can be used to treat mild degrees of neurosis.
Another condition in which you can use validol is hysteria and hysterical seizures. These are varieties of complex neuroses, more characteristic of women. The condition consists in demonstration of ostentatious behavioral reactions: laughter, tears, sobbing, cries, imaginary seizures and convulsions.
Often against the background of neuroses and other nervous diseases, pain in the heart area may also occur. From such neurological pains too can help validol. You need to be cautious because it is important to know exactly the true nature of heart pain.
The motion sickness syndrome, or "seasickness"
The true cause of nausea, dizziness and vomiting that appear in a perfectly healthy person when traveling by plane, ship or car is not yet clear.
Validol not bad helps with seasick attacks, mainly due to the action of menthol on nerve endings and receptors. Similarly, passengers are helped sucking a mint candy or chewing gum with menthol. A strong "cooling" effect of menthol distracts the attention of the brain from the center of vomiting.
Also esters of valeric acid in the validol help to calm down the worried passengers and thereby also facilitate nausea and dizziness.
Pregnancy Application
Especially it is necessary to concern reception of validolum by pregnant and nursing mothers. Theoretically, the components of the drug can not have any harmful effect on the fetus or a child who has already been born, by applying it to the mother's milk. The catch is that extensive clinical trials in this category of patients have not been conducted. It should be noted that quite often validol helps well future mothers with insomnia and agitation, and the vasodilator effect is used in the complex therapy of gestosis - a serious complication of late pregnancy. In this case, the drug calms the pregnant woman, lowers blood pressure and slightly improves blood flow in the placenta.
