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  2. Anti-inflammatory - Wikipedia

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    Anti-inflammatory or antiphlogistic is the property of a substance or treatment that reduces inflammation or swelling. Anti-inflammatory drugs , also called anti-inflammatories , make up about half of analgesics .

  3. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug - Wikipedia

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    Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs [1] [3] (NSAID) [1] are members of a therapeutic drug class which reduces pain, [4] decreases inflammation, decreases fever, [1] and prevents blood clots. Side effects depend on the specific drug, its dose and duration of use, but largely include an increased risk of gastrointestinal ulcers and bleeds ...

  4. Mechanism of action of aspirin - Wikipedia

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    Aspirin is non-selective and irreversibly inhibits both forms [4] (but is weakly more selective for COX-1 [5]). It does so by acetylating the hydroxyl of a serine residue at the 530 amino acid position. [6] Normally COX produces prostaglandins, most of which are pro-inflammatory, and thromboxanes, which promote clotting.

  5. Counterirritant - Wikipedia

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    They differ from the anesthetics, analgesics, and antipruritic agents, however, in that the pain relief they produce results from stimulation—rather than depression—of the cutaneous sensory receptors and occurs in structures of the body other than the skin areas to which they are applied as for example, in joints, muscles, tendons and ...

  6. Naproxen - Wikipedia

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    Naproxen's medical uses are related to its mechanism of action as an anti-inflammatory compound. [11] Naproxen is used to treat a variety of inflammatory conditions and symptoms that are due to excessive inflammation, such as pain and fever (naproxen has fever-reducing, or antipyretic, properties in addition to its anti-inflammatory activity). [11]

  7. Ibuprofen - Wikipedia

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    A Cochrane medical review of 51 trials of NSAIDs for the treatment of lower back pain found that "NSAIDs are effective for short-term symptomatic relief in patients with acute low back pain". [19] It is used for inflammatory diseases such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

  8. Indometacin - Wikipedia

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    Indometacin, also known as indomethacin, is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) commonly used as a prescription medication to reduce fever, pain, stiffness, and swelling from inflammation. It works by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins , endogenous signaling molecules known to cause these symptoms.

  9. Metamizole - Wikipedia

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    It is primarily used for perioperative pain, acute injury, colic, cancer pain, other acute/chronic forms of pain and high fever unresponsive to other agents. [4] Metamizole also effectively manages biliary and intestinal colic-like pain, and reduces the spasm of the smooth muscle of the sphincter of Oddi .