What is the function and usage of magnesium sulfate

Magnesium sulfate can be used not only in leather making and explosives, but also in papermaking and porcelain, fertilizers and oral laxatives, etc. Because magnesium is the main component of green leaves, many people use magnesium sulfate to fertilize crops, such as tomatoes and potatoes, etc., and the solubility of magnesium sulfate is also very high. At the same time, medicines made of magnesium sulfate can also treat many diseases. Let's take a look at the role and usage of magnesium sulfate.

First, what is the role and use of magnesium sulfate? Usage: 2 to 5 grams each time, 3 times a day, orally before or between meals. Function: Commonly used to treat convulsions, eclampsia, uremia, tetanus and hypertensive encephalopathy. (1) Magnesium sulfate can inhibit the central nervous system, relax skeletal muscles, and has sedative, antispasmodic and intracranial pressure reducing effects. (2) Magnesium plays an extremely important role in the metabolism of sugar and protein. (3) Magnesium has many physiological functions similar to those of potassium. (4) When patients with heart failure use digitalis drugs, they can appropriately supplement with magnesium salts to prevent low magnesium levels from aggravating the toxicity of digitalis. In clinical practice, magnesium salts are often effective in treating tachycardia. (5) Oral magnesium sulfate is poorly absorbed in the intestine and therefore has no uses as described above. However, oral magnesium sulfate has a good cathartic function, so magnesium sulfate is also called Epsom salt. (6) Magnesium sulfate can stimulate the duodenal mucosa, reflexively causing relaxation of the common bile duct sphincter and contraction of the gallbladder, thereby promoting gallbladder emptying and having a cholestatic effect. It can be used to treat cholecystitis and cholelithiasis. 7) Magnesium sulfate can be used for gastrointestinal imaging (8) Anti-inflammatory and swelling. Oral use: catharsis, choleretic; intravenous use: lowering blood pressure, anticonvulsant; external use: reducing swelling!

Second, oral administration is not easily absorbed by the intestines and remains in the intestinal cavity, which increases the osmotic pressure of the intestinal contents, causes the intestinal cavity to retain a large amount of water, increases the volume, stimulates the intestinal wall to increase intestinal peristalsis and cause diarrhea. It is a strong laxative, mainly used to remove toxins from the intestines. It is also used as a laxative after taking certain anthelmintics and to treat constipation. Injection can inhibit the central nervous system, block the peripheral neuromuscular junctions to produce sedation, antispasmodic, and skeletal muscle relaxation effects, and can also reduce intracranial pressure. Regarding the effect on the cardiovascular system, excess magnesium ions can directly relax the peripheral vascular smooth muscle, causing blood vessels to dilate and blood pressure to drop.

What are the functions and uses of magnesium sulfate? The above content is a detailed introduction to it. From this we can see that its indications include constipation, abnormal intestinal fermentation, and it can also be used in conjunction with anthelmintics; combined with activated carbon, it can treat food or drug poisoning. Used for obstructive jaundice and chronic cholecystitis. Used for convulsions, eclampsia, uremia, tetanus, hypertensive encephalopathy and acute renal hypertensive crisis, etc. .It is also used for patients with frequent angina attacks who are not well responded to other treatments, and it is more effective for patients with hypertension. Apply hot compress externally to reduce inflammation and swelling.