"Valoserdin": the instruction on application, responses. What is the difference between "Valoserdin" and "Corvalol"

"Valoserdin" medication instructions for use define as a combined medicine, the therapeutic effect of which is due to the pharmacological activity of the ingredients included in its composition: phenobarbital, peppermint oil, ethyl bromizovalerianate.

Healing properties

Phenobarbital has a mild hypnotic and sedative effect, reduces the excitation of the central nervous system and facilitates the process of the onset of natural sleep. Peppermint oil has an antispasmodic and reflex vasodilating property. Ethyl bromizovalerate also produces spasmolytic and sedative effects. Many patients ask: "Does the drug" Valoserdin "increase the pressure or lower?" It should be said that, although this drug is not intended specifically for lowering the pressure, it can still have some activity in this plan, because available in Its components show a vasodilating effect.

Indications for use

As a sedative, the "Valoserdin" medication instructions for use show for neurotic-like conditions, which are accompanied by increased irritability, with functional disorders of the heart and vessels, tachycardia, disturbed sleep, an excited state with pronounced vegetative phenomena.

Most patients mistakenly believe that this drug is able to cure heart disease. It should be noted that the use of "Valoserdin" has no therapeutic effect on the heart and other organs, but helps to remove somatoform autonomic dysfunction or the so-called "hypochondriacal syndrome". In other words, the medicine prevents disturbances in the functioning of the cardiovascular, nervous systems caused by depression, stress, anxiety, etc., and does not directly relieve the diseases.

The medicine "Valoserdin". Composition. Form of issue

The medicine is produced in the form of drops, which are a colorless transparent liquid with a specific odor. Drops are packaged in glass bottles in volume 15, 25, 50 milliliters, which, in turn, are placed in cardboard packages. One milliliter of the drug contains 2 grams of ethyl bromoisovalericanate and phenobarbital, 0.14 grams of peppermint oil, 0.02 grams of oregano oil (or Spanish hop oil), 52 grams of rectified 96% ethanol (ethanol), up to 100 grams Purified water.

Method of reception

Drops of "Valoserdin" should be taken orally before meals together with a small amount of liquid. The doctor dosage is selected individually. As a rule, adult patients receive thrice 15-20 drops three times a day. In the case of tachycardia, a single dose can be increased to 40-50 drops. The dosage of the drug for children will be determined based on the clinical picture of the disease. Often, the doctor makes a medication at the rate of one drop for each year of life of the baby. Data on the duration of treatment with the drug "Valoserdin" instruction for use does not contain. Such information should be clarified by the treating doctor.

Which medicine is better: Corvalol, Valoserdin or Valocordin

All three medicines have the same properties. The medication Valokordin, Valoserdin, and Corvalol can also have a sedative effect on the body, reduce the excitation of the central nervous system. "What is the difference between these drugs in this case?" - often interested in patients. Let's figure it out.

A bit of history

Phenobarbital, included in the composition of these medicines, is universally recognized as a hard drug throughout the world. It began to be produced in 1912 in Germany under the trademark "Luminal". Up until the 1950s, medication in Europe was considered the most popular sedative. Epileptics with his help relieved spasms, the ladies reassured their delicate psyche, while the rest banally got rid of insomnia. The drug "Luminal" had many contraindications due to its ability to accumulate in the body. Some even used it as a reliable method to settle scores with life.

The Germans tried to find a way to reduce the harm of the Luminal drug while preserving its useful properties. As a result, in 1934 the medicine "Valocordin" was created in Germany, which is a composition of phenobarbital, compounds of valerian acid and bromine, mint oil and hop cones. Together, all these ingredients have the ability to dilate blood vessels, soothe, give sleep.

How did the drug "Corvalol"

During the Second World War, the production of Valocordin was suspended, and it was only resumed in the 1950s. In the difficult post-war period, when millions of people were moving away from the stresses experienced, the drug was very popular. This did not remain hidden from the attention of Soviet pharmacologists. So, in 1960, without philosophizing slyly, at the Kiev Pharmaceutical Plant named after Mikhail Lomonosov began to produce the drug "Corvalol", similar to the "Valocordin". The only difference from the German medicine was that there was no hop oil in the composition of Soviet-made drops. Perhaps he was ruled out, so that there would not be too much banal theft. Then the pharmaceutical company "Farmak" was established on the basis of the plant, and to this day it produces all known drops.

Are there any differences?

Somewhat later, in Russia, also began to produce the drug "Valoserdin" - a complete analogue of the German means "Valocordin" (with the presence of the composition of hop oil). Now on a free sale there are both medicines of domestic production: both Valoserdin and Corvalol. What is the difference between these medicines, in addition to the fact that one of them contains the oregano oil, and the other does not contain it? Is that the price. For a bottle of drops of "Valoserdin" of 15 milliliters will have to give an average of 40-50 rubles, while a 25-ml bottle of drops "Corvalol" will cost only 15-20 rubles.

By the way, the German drug "Valocordin" can also be bought in any pharmacy, but it is the most expensive of all three medicines - a bottle of drops of 20 milliliters worth 65-85 rubles. Meanwhile, in Germany, this medication has not been used for a long time. Pharmaceutical company Krewel Meuselbach GmbH produces it exclusively for export to the countries of the former USSR.

Adverse events

Valoserdin is quite well tolerated by patients. Reviews suggest that drops even with long-term use do not cause negative effects. Some people note the appearance during the daytime of drowsiness and light dizziness after taking the medication. Despite such, in much of the rainbow reviews, taking drops for a long time is strongly discouraged.

Firstly, if you calm yourself in this way constantly, the activity of the drug will gradually decrease, you will have to use drops in larger and larger amounts to achieve the desired result. Secondly, regular use of the drug or its use in large doses can lead to chronic bromine poisoning, and this manifests itself in the form of apathy, depressive moods, coordination disorders, hemorrhagic diathesis, conjunctivitis, rhinitis.

Studies show that the constant use of large doses of medication suppresses the sexual function, causes serious cognitive and neurological disorders, including problems with speech, memory, unsteadiness of gait. In the presence of such phenomena the patient should be urgently sent to specialists: a psychiatrist, a narcologist.

For good or for harm?

In medical practice, a case is known when the patient, after taking 125 milliliters of drops with acute poisoning with phenobarbital for three days, was hospitalized in a toxicological department. And indeed, this substance is psychotropic. More than once attempts were made to prohibit the sale of drugs containing phenobarbital, but so far they have not been successful - to buy drops in the pharmacy does not even require a prescription from a doctor.

Meanwhile, in a number of countries, for example, in the US, Lithuania, these drugs are fully considered drugs, their import and sale are banned. However, our compatriots do not frighten the situation. Many people, especially the elderly, simply can not live without such drugs as "Corvalol" or "Valoserdin." Patients' reviews report that no other medications are capable of eliminating heart pain and soothing so effectively. Obviously, such conclusions are erroneous.

Contraindications

With severe violations of the liver, kidneys, as well as during pregnancy and lactation, it is necessary to refuse the use of "Valoserdin". Instructions for use among contraindications indicate a hypersensitivity to the components included in the composition.

Overdose

Mild to moderate intoxication manifests psychomotor disorders, drowsiness, dizziness. With a severe overdose, breathing is broken, peripheral reflexes decrease, pressure drops, tachycardia arises. Everything can end with vascular collapse, coma and even death.

Interaction with other drugs

The activity of the ingredients of the drug "Valoserdin" in case of its simultaneous reception with tranquilizers and neuroleptics is enhanced, and with stimulants of the central nervous system - is weakened. Drinking alcohol increases the toxicity of the drug. Do not take drops along with drugs that metabolize in the liver, because phenobarbital is able to induce hepatic enzymes and thereby accelerate metabolism, and, accordingly, reduce the effectiveness of such drugs.