How does Valocordin differ from Valocordin and which one is better?

Has restrictions during pregnancy

Has restrictions when breastfeeding

Allowed for children

Has restrictions for older people

Prohibited for liver problems

Prohibited for kidney problems

Patients with vascular or cardiac pathologies often take Valocordin or Valoserdin to relieve nervous overexcitation or a feeling of compression behind the sternum. It is necessary to clarify that both medications are not antihypertensive or cardiac drugs, and in their composition they are close to sedative medications.

The drugs also have a vasodilating effect, which helps improve coronary blood flow and increase blood flow to the myocardium. In this article we will look at what is better to take in each specific case – Valocordin or Valoserdin.

Content:

1. Story
2. Action
3. Phenobarbital
4. Contraindications and complications
5. Consequences of excessive use
6. Signs of addiction
7. The dangers of addiction

Valocordin is one of the most popular medications used to quickly restore peace of mind and improve heart function. It is sold without a prescription and can be found in almost any medicine cabinet. Meanwhile, it is not as harmless as it might seem. The product contains a serious substance with psychotropic effects - phenobarbital. If you take Valocordin excessively, the consequences can be disastrous, since it is addictive and sometimes provokes serious complications.

Valocordin, its properties, indications, effect on the body

Valocordin appeared back in 1963 and immediately earned the attention of many with its wide range of indications and relative harmlessness to the body. It is recommended to use it orally before meals, diluting it with water. The appearance of the drug is colorless drops with a pronounced odor.

Active ingredients of Valocordin:

• Hop oil.
• Ethanol.
• Phenobarbital.
• Peppermint.

Valocordin is used not only for heart problems, but also as a sedative . It is used for the manifestation of symptoms such as cardialgia, tachycardia, as well as for disorders of the nervous system, for example, insomnia, anxiety, causeless irritability, neuroticism.

The active substances described above have the following effects on the body:

1. Reduces anxiety and restlessness.
2. Makes it easier to fall asleep.
3. Improves overall heart function.
4. They act as a sedative, exhibiting a mild analgesic effect.
5. In addition, when using this medicine, blood vessels dilate and blood pressure decreases.

Despite this, the drug is not recommended to be taken to stabilize blood pressure . The restrictions on taking Valocordin are quite small: individual intolerance to any of the active components, pregnancy, as well as liver or kidney pathology.

Story

Valocordin is a medicine that was created in Germany. Widespread sales began in 1934. After some time, the drug became available in the USSR, and then domestic specialists, based on it, created a medicine with a similar composition and almost similar effect - Corvalol. Currently, the medicine is no longer produced abroad, but is still popular in Russia due to its availability, low price and rapid onset of effects. It can be bought at any pharmacy without a prescription.

Key differences and effectiveness

Valocordin and its analog Valoserdin contain two identical active components - phenobarbital and ethyl bromoisovalerianate. The vasodilating and sedative properties of the agents depend on these components.

Effect of phenobarbital:

• expands the lumen of arterial vessels;
• improves coronary blood flow;
• lowers the blood pressure index;
• relieves stress on the myocardium;
• calms the nervous system;
• normalizes proper sleep.

Effect of phenobarbital

Ethyl bromizovalerianate has the following properties:

• reduces the excitation of nerve impulses;
• corrects high blood pressure;
• relieves spasms in the arterial membranes and muscle fibers, including the myocardium;
• promotes quick fall asleep and restful sleep.

The base for the drops is ethyl alcohol. Both components of the drug complement each other’s action, which makes it possible to replace one drug with another. The original drug is Valocordin (a drug made in Germany), and Valoserdin is its Russian analogue.

Both medications differ in the presence of additional components in the composition. The main difference in Valocordin's composition is mint oil and hop extract, while Valocordin's is an oil extract of oregano and peppermint.

General information about Valocordin

Valocordin is an original drug produced by a German pharmaceutical company. Valoserdin is an analogue of Russian manufacturers, the composition of which is adapted to the available local medicinal raw materials. In Western countries, Valocordin has not been used in therapy for about 30 years, but in the CIS countries both drugs are popular due to their effectiveness and low cost.

Both drugs can be purchased at pharmacies without a prescription from a doctor. There is also a noticeable difference in price - Valoserdin is an order of magnitude cheaper than the original. Although both medications have the same properties, Valocordin, having an original recipe, is more effective than its Russian counterpart.

Action

Many people believe that Valocordin is a medicine for treating heart disease. Actually this is not true. The drug has a moderate sedative effect, calms and relaxes. Due to the depressing effect on the central nervous system, the state of the whole organism changes. Blood pressure decreases and heart rate decreases. But these effects are significant only for small deviations from the norm and do not eliminate any violations in the presence of serious pathology.

In addition, thanks to its calming effect, the drug helps against insomnia and eliminates excessive nervousness. In large doses, it relieves intestinal and stomach colic, but is practically not used for this purpose, since the consequences of an overdose of valocordin exceed the benefits of normalizing the functioning of the digestive system.

To improve the condition with a single dose, only 15–30 drops are enough, the result is noticeable within 15–20 minutes. With constant use, the required dose increases, the effects become less pronounced, which facilitates the use of large quantities of the drug. Along with this, another unpleasant effect is observed - valocordin does not cure, but only temporarily eliminates the symptoms. The person does not go to the doctor, but “suppresses” the disease, which continues to progress, destroying the body.

Which medication should be preferred and in what case?

The identical qualitative composition of the drugs determines the same indications for prescribing Valocordin and Valoserdin. However, experienced specialists differentiate the approach to treating each case depending on additional symptoms and pathologies. Valocordin is an older drug, proven by many generations. Most often the drug is prescribed:

• patients over 60 years old;
• people with severe pain in the heart area. A high concentration of peppermint essential oil has a distracting effect, which relaxes the spasmodic muscles of the coronary vessels and improves blood delivery to the myocardium;
• patients with mild arterial hypertension (systolic pressure less than 160 mm Hg);
• patients with cardialgic variant of vegetative-vascular and neurocirculatory dystonia.

Valoserdin is more often prescribed to patients with neurological symptoms, due to a higher dose of anti-anxiety substances. The drug is used for:

• insomnia, nightmares;
• patients with anxiety or depression;
• mentally caused vegetative disorders.

If it is possible to prescribe any of the drugs, the doctor is obliged to inform the patient about the acceptable choice and explain the fundamental differences.

Phenobarbital

The seemingly harmless, easily accessible “penny” drops contain a substance from the barbiturate group, which has a pronounced psychotropic effect. The main consumers of valocordin are elderly people who are accustomed to trusting familiar things and often do not know or do not take into account the fact of the presence of phenobarbital in a medicine known since childhood. Meanwhile, barbiturates can be addictive.

Another category of Valocordin “lovers” are drug addicts who want to enhance the effects of other drugs or to more easily endure withdrawal symptoms in the absence of the right drug. They are well aware of the composition of the drops, which is why they are purchased and taken in doses many times higher than therapeutic ones.

Reviews

The domestic drug Valoserdin and the foreign drug Valocordin are very popular in Russia, especially among patients of retirement age, when an effective medicine can be purchased at a low price. Reviews about the drug are mixed - cardiologists are against taking phenobarbital, and patients are definitely in favor of taking these sedatives:

Paliy V.V., cardiologist: “I do not recommend my patients to take Valocordin and its analogue, because they are not cardiological drugs, and they cannot replace medications for the treatment of heart disease and hypertension, but many patients use them in the treatment of heart disease, ignoring the doctor’s warnings and prescriptions, and thereby aggravating the course of the disease.”

Tamara, 65 years old: “For 10 years I periodically used Valocordin to treat attacks of high blood pressure, but now I bought a Russian analogue, and I don’t feel any difference except in price. Valoserdin is almost three times cheaper.”

Nikolai, 61 years old: “I have very difficulty falling asleep and my night sleep is intermittent. In the morning I wake up tired and my heart rate is racing. My wife bought me Valoserdin. After a week of taking it, my insomnia disappeared, although I took the standard dose of 20 drops.”

This pharmacological group of medications belongs to symptomatic medications and cannot be used as a basic medicine for the treatment of arterial hypertension, nervousness and cardiac diseases.

Contraindications and complications

Failure to follow the recommendations when taking medication can lead to dangerous consequences. To prevent this, you should read the instructions before starting treatment. The medicine should not be taken if you have kidney or liver failure, or while pregnant or breastfeeding.

After using the product, it is better to refrain from driving a car or operating dangerous machinery, as it slows down the reaction and impairs the ability to concentrate. If you take Valocordin and alcohol at the same time, the consequences can be tragic .
These substances are incompatible - the medicine makes ethanol more toxic, as a result of which severe alcohol poisoning occurs even when drinking a moderate dose of alcohol.

Excessive use

Taking large doses can provoke complications from the central nervous system and internal organs. Negative effects can be divided into three groups , corresponding to the degrees of phenobarbital poisoning.

• Easy. Characterized by weakness, passivity, drowsiness, slow speech, decreased ability to concentrate. Digestive disorders and the development of allergic skin reactions: swelling, redness, rashes may occur.
• Medium-heavy. There is marked muscle weakness, hypotension, and slight hyperthermia. The person falls into deep sleep lasting from 1 to 2 days. Awakening is impossible or difficult and ineffective due to inhibition and inability to make productive contact.
• Heavy. Depression of the respiratory center results in respiratory and cardiovascular disorders. A barbiturate coma with the development of acute heart failure and pulmonary edema cannot be ruled out. There is a serious threat to life, and in the absence of urgent medical care, death is possible.

With regular, long-term use, addiction develops - a person begins to take Valocordin not to eliminate unpleasant symptoms, but for pleasure and relaxation.

Side effects and overdose

In many Western countries, taking Valocordin is prohibited due to the presence of phenobarbital, which is a narcotic drug. Both medications often cause drug dependence, both physical and psychological.

To relieve attacks of neurotic overstrain, new medications have been developed without the use of phenobarbital, which are safe for the body, but their cost is much higher than Valocordin. If you use medications Valoserdin or Valocordin for a long period of time, the development of quite severe negative reactions of the body is possible:

An overdose of a medication is manifested by the following symptoms:

• dizziness;
• deep and long sleep;
• body fatigue.

In case of severe drug intoxication, the following signs appear:

• rapid heartbeat that slows down;
• breathing is frequent and shallow, then slows down;
• severely reduced blood pressure;
• lack of reflexes;
• a coma state in which organ hypoxia begins to develop;
• pulmonary edema.

To treat intoxication, the patient is urgently taken by ambulance to the intensive care unit, where doctors will ensure the supply of oxygen to the organs using an artificial respiration apparatus.

It is also necessary to restore blood flow with the help of an infusion of blood plasma, or with the help of medications that increase the volume of plasma blood. If an overdose occurs accidentally, then you must immediately rinse the stomach (induce vomiting) and drink sorbents. And be sure to go to the hospital for further treatment of symptoms of barbiturate overdose.

Signs of addiction

The following symptoms indicate the development of pathological addiction:

• constant use of drops under any pretext and even in minor stressful situations;
• ritual behavior: a sense of the importance of the action, careful preparation for the reception, priority over other matters;
• a person's inability to sleep or calm down without medication;
• gradual increase in dose, noticeable by the number of bubbles in the first aid kit and in the trash;
• the tendency to create a stock by buying several pieces at once;
• restlessness, depression and irritability when the drug runs out or is unavailable.

General information about Valocordin and Valoserdin

Valocordin is a combined medication with hypnotic and antispasmodic effects. The scope of application of the drug is neurological, cardiac and vascular disorders. Its sedative effect affects the centers of the nervous system - relaxes nerve fibers, relieves muscle tension, which helps restore balance in the psycho-emotional state.

The vasodilating effect helps reduce compression behind the chest and, by improving blood flow, reduces blood pressure and the load on the myocardium.

The main components in the drug are:

• phenobarbitals;
• ethanol;
• ethyl bromoisovalerate;
• hop;
• mint oil.

Valoserdin is a drug that has a similar effect on nerve fibers as Valocordin. Drops reduce tension in nerve fibers at the time of overexcitation and increase blood flow in the myocardium. From the first minutes after taking the drops, the patient feels relaxation of nerve and muscle fibers, shortness of breath goes away, heart rate decreases, and psycho-emotional balance is restored.

Description of the drug

Valoserdin is not specifically prescribed for the treatment of hypertension and cardiac pathologies, but as first aid for a sharp rise in pressure and discomfort in the heart area, many hypertensive patients take drops, which helps relieve an attack.

The dangers of addiction

If a patient constantly uses Valocordin, the consequences may include:

• Decreased cognitive function. The intellect suffers, memory deteriorates, the person becomes distracted and unable to concentrate.
• Mental disorders. The development of depressive and anxiety disorders, panic attacks and paranoid moods is possible. People suffer from increased drowsiness or, on the contrary, insomnia.
• Overdose. The accumulation of phenobarbital in the body, combined with the habit of choosing a dose “by eye,” can cause an unexpected overdose, which in older people is often complicated by respiratory disorders and can cause death.
• Accidents. Lethargy, drowsiness, slow reactions and inattention lead to unpleasant and sometimes tragic incidents. People forget to turn off the water, gas or electric stove, do not lock the door, fall or get hit by a car.

Absent-mindedness and forgetfulness should not be attributed to age or fatigue. If you or a loved one taking Valocordin have similar symptoms, you should see a doctor to understand the reasons.