Ancient medication Quaternary medicine is increasingly rarerecommended by modern doctors. Pharmacological industry offers a huge range of sedatives and antidepressants, produced on an industrial scale. Potter's medicine was never produced at the enterprises, it is prepared in pharmacies only on prescription. To keep it long is impossible, because it is usable only for three days.
In due time students of medical institutes learned a prescription compound of a medicine as the table of multiplication or our Father. Many remember it so far.
The drug is known as a sedative andanticonvulsant. It is prescribed for children, adolescents, adults and elderly patients. It is also recommended to pregnant women, especially prone to panic disorders, anxiety.
Menopause is a difficult period in a woman's life,the body is rebuilt, health is malfunctioning, nerves are at their limit. Unreasonable anxiety, unreasonable irritability, headaches, insomnia, depression are frequent companions of menopause. Quarter's medicine helps many to restore a healthy sleep, restore mental balance.
In general, the medicine helps with many forms of neurasthenia, neuroses, great emotional stress.
Its sedative and anticonvulsant actionbased on the properties of the incoming ingredients. Potter's medicine, whose composition has a combined character, includes an infusion of valerian roots, peppermint leaves, amidopyrine, magnesium sulfate, sodium bromide, sodium caffeine-benzoate. Thus, it combines vegetable and chemical elements in exact proportions.
The usual dose of taking the drug is one canteenspoon after eating. With neuroses - once a day, with cramps - three times a day. Quaternary medicine can cause drowsiness and lethargy, so it must be taken at night (in the first case) or treated in a relatively quiet period, when no active activity is required (in the second case).
Potter's medicine has practically nocontraindications, but it is categorically forbidden to people with individual intolerance to bromides. These very bromides are the reason why the medicine can not be taken for a long time. Otherwise, bromine, included in its composition, can provoke such a disease as chronic bromism. Increased bromine content leads to disruption of the central and peripheral nervous system. Therefore, you can take Quater's medicine for no more than 2 months. The course of treatment can be repeated after 3 months. Especially careful people should be very old. Bromine is excreted from their body slowly, its accumulation in the blood can lead to intoxication. Therefore, Quater's medicine should be taken only according to the doctor's prescription and under strict supervision. This same postulate refers to people with various kidney diseases.
Often, this drug is recommended for pregnant women andnursing. It reduces the level of anxiety, some nervousness, characteristic for these periods in a woman's life. Strict adherence to the recommendations on the regime and dosage of the medicine will only benefit. The same caution is necessary if the medicine is prescribed for a child or adolescent. Up to 12 years, the dosage of the medicine is 1 teaspoon once a day, before bedtime.
Quater Medicine, reviews of which orpositive, or neutral, is not very pleasant to the taste. It can be washed down with water or milk. Neutral testimonies indicate that, like any medicine, the drug acts differently on different people. Someone immediately feel the relief of the condition, someone needs a longer period of admission, someone's body does not react at all to the mixture.
