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BRIGHT MINDS SPM 2014

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CHEMICAL FOR CONSUMER Medicine Traditional medicine: derived from natural sources such as plants and animal without being processed chemically

Traditional medicine uses

Ginseng To improve the overall health and increasing energy, endurance and reducing fatigue

Aloe vera Treating itchy skins and burns on the skins Mint Increase body temperature and make it sweating

Garlic As antibiotic and use to treat injured, asthma, flu and also decreasing high blood,

Ginger Treating stomach pain, supplying heat energy to keep body warm and preventing flu attack

Quinine Treating malaria and preventing muscle cramps Cocaine anesthetic

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Modern medicine : - known as chemotherapy

- made in various type like pill, capsule, paste and solution

Modern medicine is classified in 4 categories: 1. ANALGESICS

example : Aspirin (acetyl salicylic)

- Pain killer - Reduce fever - Treat arthritis (muscle aches) - Prevent clotting of blood and reduce the risk

of heart attacks and strokes

Paracetamol / panadol - Pain killer - Reduce fever - Replace aspirin for children

Codeine - Relieve minor to moderate pain - Suppressing cough - Can cause addicted

2. ANTIBIOTIC

Relieve pain or sometimes called pain killer

Destroy or prevent the growth of infectious microorganism


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Example : Penicillin

- Treat disease cause by bacteria, such as pneumonia, gonorrhea and syphilis

- Streptomycin - treating tuberculosis

3. PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC MEDICINE

Psychotherapeutic is divide in 3 group;

Group Function Example

Stimulants

- stimulate(excite) the activity of brain and central nervous system - increasing alertness and physical abilities to prepare for demanding or energetic activities

Amphetamines Dextoamphetamine Femetrazin

Antidepressants

- increase the brain’s level of neurotransmitters, thus improving mood and also make a person feel calm and sleepy

Barbiturate Tranquilizer

Antipsychotic - treating schizophrenia (people lose touch with reality)

Chlozapin Chlorpromazine Haloperidol

Treating mental or emotional illness


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4. Hormone and Steroid Hormone example : Insulin - treating diabetes

Group Function Example

Steroid anabolic

- use to treating AIDS and cancer

Metandrostenolone (Dianabol) Testosteronpropionat (Testex)

Corticosteroid

- having anti inflammation characteristics and treating asthma and arthritis rheumatoid (joint illness)

Cortisone Prednisone

Hormone is a organic substance that produce by human endocrine gland to control physiology

process and homeostasis

Steroid is natural lipid compound. Steroid is divide to steroid anabolic and corticosteroid


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Side effects of modern medicine Modern medicine have side effects: Example ;

Type of modern drug Side effect

Aspirin (analgesic)

Bleeding in stomach, allergic reaction, skin rashes and asthmatic attacks

Penicillin (antibiotic) Allergic reactions, coma and rash

Amphetamines (psychotherapeutic) (stimulant)

Excitable and talkative, can cause heart attack, anxiety, sleepiness, aggressive behavior and decrease appetite.

Barbiturate (psychotherapeutic) (antidepressant)

Addicted,

Haloperidol (psikoteraputik) (antipsychotic)

Sedative (imagination), Increase the weigh, dizzy, giddy, constipation and active.

Cortisone (Steroid) (Corticosteroid)

Increase the weigh, high blood pressure, joint illness, muscle cramps, headache,

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