Question

The drug used in relaxing mental and physical stress is
A. Morphine
B. Quinine
C. Ginseng
D. Digoxin

Answer 1

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Complete answer:
The sedatives are the drugs that reduce excitement by depressing the CNS activity and lowers the physiological or functional activity leading to drowsiness or sleep. e.g. barbiturates, benzodiazepines etc. These drugs are normally used as medicine to help patients cope with mental illnesses like depression, insomnia etc. and are often abused by drug addicts.
Now let us see which of the given option helps to cure mental illness:
> Morphine:- it is extracted from the latex of poppy plant Papaver somniferum. It is a very effective sedative and painkiller and is very useful for patients who have undergone surgery.
> Quinine:- it is a medicine that is used to treat malaria. This drug is also called antimalarials. This drug should not be used to treat leg cramps.
> Ginseng:- it includes eleven different kinds of herbs or shrubs. It mostly includes roots and is a most advantageous herb. It stimulates the feeling of well beings and also enhances mental level and cures mental illness.
> Digoxin:- it is used to treat the heart disease. It can be given for heart attacks, cardiac arrest. It is given either through mouth or taken by injection.

So, the correct option is A. morphine.

Note:
The drugs are normally used as medicines to help the patients cope with illnesses. But when these drugs are taken for purpose other than their normal clinical use, it is called drug abuse / addiction. Addiction is a habitual, physiological and psychological dependence on a substance or practice which is beyond voluntary control.