2007-06-20 03:42:21 · 8 answers · asked by okulla2000 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Heart Diseases
it used to be used as a local anesthetic to numb the throat/mouth/gums for oral and throat surgery...
it is also useful as an appetite suppressant...
and when used with alcohol it has sobering effects and can make you last all night long partying..
2007-06-25 03:01:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cocaine has a few beneficial properties but no present appropriate use. As recently as the 1970s it was used by ENTs (now oto-rhino-laryngologists) as a spray to reduce gagging in the throat and to stop bleeding in the nose. Unfortunately cocaine is uniquely risky. A first use (just out of curiosity) of a 'typical' dose may prove fatal just as the use of a small dose by a habitual user may prove fatal. It is not simply the addiction and its associated problems but the unpredictable risk of sudden death that should forbade its usage. It may be a 'street' drug in the United States but it is still used by many native tribes around the world for a variety of reasons - medicinal, religious, cultural, and other.
2007-06-20 08:54:18 · answer #2 · answered by john e russo md facm faafp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, an early grave!! Cocaine screws up your heart, big time. It causes a rapid influx of electrolytes that are essential to the heart muscle. This rapid influx( exchange) will cause the heart to go into V-Tach ( Ventricular Tachycardia { the lower chambers of the heart start to "quiver" and will experience too high of a beat that the lower heart chambers can handle}, thus causing the heart to stop!! Remember Lenny Bias, The Boston Celtic's hopeful??
2007-06-24 12:38:46 · answer #3 · answered by Ruth 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sigmund Freud used it to make his patients loosen up and talk in their psychoanalytic therapy sessions with him. now it is proved that his patients were basically high so we don't really know the madicinal benefit. usually cocaine doesn't do anything helpful to the body.
2007-06-20 04:00:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You will find an interesting article on the link given below, BUT HOWEVER IT IS A STREET DRUG NOW, THE BENEFITS ARE NOT SO IMMENSE THAT IT OUTWEIGHTS THE LEVEL OF HAZARDS IT HAS GIVEN TO YOUNGER GENERATION.
http://www.cocamuseum.com/htm/pharmacology.htm
2007-06-20 05:33:04 · answer #5 · answered by Dr.Qutub 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pain reliever
energy
weight loss
compared to about at least 50 consequences
2007-06-20 13:18:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some doctors still use it, not used often though, i believe its a vasoconstrictor, or vasodilator, its late for me i cant recall which it does. but im really wanting to think that it constricts
2007-06-20 18:35:00 · answer #7 · answered by aaron w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
weight loss.
also, if you sell it, it makes you rich.
2007-06-25 09:42:50 · answer #8 · answered by carl barat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋