2007-08-22 11:51:20 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Aspirin's mode of action as an antiinflammatory and antirheumatic agent is due to inhibition of synthesis and release of prostaglandins.
2007-08-22 14:25:21 · answer #1 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When you have headaches, your blood vessels usually constricts, so aspirin, which is as an analgesic (to relieve minor aches and pain) alleviates the pain.
Aspirin is also a blood thinning agent, so it might thins your blood and allow it to flow through that constricted blood vessel...
2007-08-22 15:18:29 · answer #2 · answered by SL 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It blocks the pain in the nervous system, thats what a pain killer does..
2007-08-22 14:37:15 · answer #3 · answered by nikehoops489 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you mean how: it blocks a generation of pain impulses by inhibiting prostaglanding sysnthesis.
2007-08-22 15:15:46 · answer #4 · answered by einsteinliam2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because its a pain killer............
2007-08-22 14:13:44 · answer #5 · answered by :) 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋