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Therapeutic Drugs and Medicines Explain in your own words what we mean by: * A medicine - a substance that does not affect the cells of the human body. * A drug - a substance that affects the cells of the human body. * A therapeutic drug - "A drug used to treat a disease or condition; contrast with drug of abuse" Type of Drug How it is used Examples of this type of compound Relative importance in Health care Other information Antibiotic Abolishes the growth of micro-organisms Penicillin Fights bacterial infections. Antiviral drugs are medicines that cure or control virus infections. Antiviral treating viral infections Ribavirin Fight viral infections Analgesic to relieve pain Ibuprofen Relieve pain Anti-histamine eliminate effects mediated by histamine Pheniranime It block the action of histamine Anti-Hypertension Stop high blood pressure Vasodilators Diverts beta blackness stetting Anti- Inflammatory reduces inflammation Prostaglandin Are used primarily to treat inflammation, Anesthetic. feeling of pain and other sensations blocked Procaine Block pain and other sensations How Aspirin works in the body Aspirin helps solve the body's pain problems by keeping it from making prostaglandins. The role of prostaglandins in...

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