Viminol has similar effects to other opioids, and produces analgesia, sedation and euphoria.
Drugs such as opioids cross the blood-brain barrier to produce analgesia but often produce confusion, sedation and addiction.
The combination is designed and said to produce effective analgesia with fast onset of action in 15 minutes, as compared to paracetamol, ibuprofen, or aspirin alone.
By producing analgesia and sedation, opioids may be appropriate in carefully selected patients with pain-associated insomnia.
Dissociatives produce analgesia, amnesia and catalepsy at anesthetic doses.
Electrical stimulation of the dorsal columns of the spinal cord (fig. 6) can produce analgesia.
During childbirth, administration of methoxyflurane produces significantly better analgesia, less psychomotor agitation, and only slightly more somnolence than trichloroethylene.
Propoxyphene is typically administered at doses that produce relatively little analgesia.
Often, low doses are adequate to produce analgesia, thought to be due to reduction in pressure or, possibly, interference with the tumor's production of pain-promoting chemicals.
It produces analgesia, numbness and reduction of physical feeling.