How do medicine tablets work?

Question

i understand the effects like numbing recepters to stop pain for example, but how does it work? what actually happens when you would take a tablet with water? more spasifically tablets for your brain, like anti depressanrts, sleep pills/tablets and stuff to calm you down.

Answer 1

Faster if you chew them up.

Answer 2

Once absorbed in the blood through the digestive process, the various chemicls circulate through the blood stream and are passed on to various cells for consumptiom.  

Chemicals are absorbed by the peptides of the neroreceptors within the brain.  A person who is depressed will have an lack of endorphins.  Anti depresent drugs are designed to simulate endorphins.  This fools the cell into believing that it is properly chemically balanced and it stops sending out negative signals and as a result, your depression decreasses.  The same can be said of headaches and other pain.

Answer 3

it goes down to your stomach..........n in the process of Absorption......where food is broken up into its constituents by reactions with Hydrochloric acid in the stomch..........it undergoes breakage...........n is absorbed by all the cell linings along the stomach.......!!!!!!

n then the constituents..ie chemicals.....enter your bloodstream........N the blood flows throughout the body.....n when the chemicals enter the respective organ......they come into action!!!!!!!

Answer 4

It goes into your stomach where the acid dissolves it so that is aborbs into your body.

It absorbs even faster if you stick it up your a**s.

Answer 5

Most sleeping pills have actions that mimic melatonin, a hormone that regulates your sleeping rhythms. The mechanism isn't known properly, but experiments have shown that melatonin levels in the blood rise at night when it's dark (and fall if you switch the light on suddenly). The link describes it in more detail.

http://www.articlesbase.com/medicine-art...

Anti-depressants also mimic certain hormones, this time neurotransmitters in the brain such as serotonin which has been shown to be present in ecstatic/happy situations. There are many others though, and new ones are being developed constantly.