Use: 2 to 5 grams each time, 3 times a day, before meals or between meals orally.

Effects: commonly used in the treatment of convulsions, eclampsia, uremia, tetanus and hypertensive encephalopathy

(1) magnesium sulfate can inhibit the central nervous system, relax skeletal muscle, sedative, anti-spasmodic, as well as reduce intracranial pressure and other effects.

(2) Magnesium has an extremely important role in the metabolism of sugar and protein.

(3) Magnesium has many physiological functions similar to those of potassium.

(4) When digitalis drugs are used in patients with cardiac insufficiency, magnesium salts can be supplemented appropriately to prevent low magnesium from aggravating the toxicity of digitalis. Clinical use of magnesium salts in the treatment of tachycardia is often effective.

(5) Oral magnesium sulfate in the intestinal tract absorption is very little, so there is no use of the above. However, oral magnesium sulfate has good diarrhea-inducing properties, so magnesium sulfate is also called laxative salt.

(6) Magnesium sulfate can stimulate the duodenal mucosa, reflexively cause relaxation of the sphincter of the common bile duct, gallbladder contraction, thus promoting gallbladder emptying, beneficial to the efficacy of the gallbladder. It can be used in the treatment of cholecystitis and cholelithiasis

(7) Magnesium sulfate can be used for gastrointestinal imaging

(8) Anti-inflammatory and swelling

Orally: laxative, choleretic; intravenously: hypotensive, anticonvulsant; externally: swelling!

The side effect of magnesium sulfate is that it can cause fast breathing and low urine output