Procaine (Novocaine)
Also known as Novocaine and Mericaine
Procaine is a local anesthetic drug of the amino ester group. It was used primarily to reduce the pain of intramuscular injection of penicillin, and it was also used in dentistry. Owing to the ubiquity of the trade name Novocain, in some regions procaine is referred to generically as novocaine. It acts mainly by being a sodium channel blocker.
Source: WikipediaWhat is it prescribed for?
Patients are most commonly prescribed procaine to treat blastomycosis, rabies, west nile virus, and pick disease.
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