Counter-stimulus

A counter-stimulus is a process that leads to local irritation and is used in medicine to deflect inflammation or pain from one part of the body to the site of the counter-stimulus.

properties

A counter-irritant inducing substance, counter-irritant (English counterirritant ;., For example, capsaicin , camphor between three and eleven percent, chloral hydrate , eucalyptus oil , or mercury (II) chloride ), is used inter alia in inflammatory diseases, to those involved in the inflammatory immune cells to lure away from the site of inflammation and thus reduce the inflammation at the original site. In the past, cantharides , mercury (II) iodide and controlled burns were used as counterirritants in horses .

Web links

Counterirritant . In: Medical Dictionary. Retrieved August 22, 2013.
Counterirritant . In: FDA (English). Retrieved August 22, 2013.

Individual evidence

↑ M. Schardt, S. Normann, E. Sorkin: Dissociation of chemotactic and inflammatory leukocyte responses. In: Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol. , 1984, Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 68-74. PMID 6746106 .
↑ M. Piché, M. Arsenault, P. Rainville: Cerebral and cerebrospinal processes underlying counterirritation analgesia. In: J Neuroscience , 2009, Vol. 29, No. 45, pp. 14236-14246. PMID 19906971 , doi: 10.1523 / JNEUROSCI.2341-09.2009 , jneurosci.org (PDF).

[1] M. Schardt, S. Normann, E. Sorkin: Dissociation of chemotactic and inflammatory leukocyte responses. In: Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol. , 1984, Vol. 75, No. 1, pp. 68-74. PMID 6746106 .

[2] M. Piché, M. Arsenault, P. Rainville: Cerebral and cerebrospinal processes underlying counterirritation analgesia. In: J Neuroscience , 2009, Vol. 29, No. 45, pp. 14236-14246. PMID 19906971 , doi: 10.1523 / JNEUROSCI.2341-09.2009 , jneurosci.org (PDF).