Hypnotic

Hypnotics, Soporifics, and Somnificants (Gr. sleep; L. sopor, heavy sleep, somnus, sleep, + facere, to make) are sedative nervines which produce sleep, leaving undisturbed the normal relationship of the mental faculties to the external world; in a broad sense these include narcotics and anesthetics: chloral hydrate, sulfonmethane, sulfonethylmethane, paraldehyde, chloralformamide, urethane, potassium, sodium, and ammonium bromides [Culbreth1927, p 40].

Substance that induces sleep [Sanchez BOTM680].

Induces sleep [Palmer2004].

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[Culbreth1927] David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth. A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology, Seventh Edition. Philadelphia, PA: Lea & Febiger (1927). Online Reprint.

[Palmer2004] Michelle Palmer class notes. Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.

[Sanchez BOTM680] Joann Sanchez. Botanical Medicine 680 notes. Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine.