Cough suppressants
Cough suppressants are medications that suppress cough, reduce mucus, and reduce bronchospasm
List of cough suppressants[edit | edit source]
- acetylcysteine
- acetylcysteine sodium
- acetyldihydrocodeine hydrochloride
- alloclamide hydrochloride
- ambroxol hydrochloride
- amidefrine mesilate
- ammonium acetate
- ammonium bicarbonate
- ammonium carbonate - a carbonate of ammonium; used in the manufacture of smelling salts and baking powder and ammonium compounds
- ammonium chloride - a white salt used in dry cells
- benproperine
- benzonatate
- bibenzonium bromide
- bromhexine
- bromhexine hydrochloride
- brovanexine hydrochloride
- butamirate citrate
- butetamate citrate
- calcium iodide
- caramiphen edisilate
- carbocisteine
- carbocisteine lysine
- carbocisteine sodium
- clobutinol hydrochloride
- clofedanol hydrochloride
- clonazoline hydrochloride
- cloperastine
- cloperastine fendizoate
- cloperastine hydrochloride
- cocillana
- coltsfoot - perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly; tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall
- creosote - a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar; used as a preservative for wood; a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic; verb treat with creosote
- dembrexine
- denufosol tetrasodium
- dextromethorphan
- dextromethorphan hydrobromide
- dimemorfan phosphate
- dimethoxanate hydrochloride
- dornase alfa
- dropropizine
- levodropropizine
- elecampane - tall coarse eurasian herb having daisylike yellow flowers with narrow petals whose rhizomatous roots are used medicinally
- ephedra - jointed and nearly leafless desert shrub having reduced scalelike leaves and reddish fleshy seeds
- ephedrine - white odorless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the genus ephedra (especially ephedra sinica) or made synthetically; used as a bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma
- ephedrine hydrochloride
- ephedrine sulfate
- racephedrine hydrochloride
- eprazinone hydrochloride
- eprozinol hydrochloride
- erdosteine
- eriodictyon - small genus of evergreen shrubs of southwestern united states and mexico
- etafedrine hydrochloride
- ethyl cysteine hydrochloride
- ethyl orthoformate
- fedrilate
- fenoxazoline hydrochloride
- fominoben hydrochloride
- fudosteine
- glaucine
- guacetisal
- guaiacol
- guaietolin
- guaifenesin
- guaimesal
- helicidine
- indanazoline hydrochloride
- iodinated glycerol
- ipecacuanha
- isoaminile
- isoaminile citrate
- isoaminile cyclamate
- letosteine
- levmetamfetamine
- marrubium - old world aromatic herbs: horehound
- mecysteine hydrochloride
- menglytate
- methoxyphenamine hydrochloride
- methyl dacisteine
- methylephedrine hydrochloride
- metizoline hydrochloride
- morclofone
- naphazoline - vasoconstrictor (trade names privine and sudafed) used in nasal sprays to treat symptoms of nasal congestion and in eyedrops to treat eye irritation
- naphazoline hydrochloride
- naphazoline nitrate
- neltenexine
- nepinalone
- nicocodine
- normethadone hydrochloride
- noscapine
- noscapine camsilate
- noscapine hydrochloride
- oxeladin citrate
- oxolamine
- oxolamine citrate
- oxolamine phosphate
- oxymetazoline hydrochloride
- pentoxyverine
- pentoxyverine citrate
- pentoxyverine hydrochloride
- phenylephrine - a powerful vasoconstrictor used to dilate the pupils and relieve nasal congestion
- phenylephrine acid tartrate
- phenylephrine hydrochloride
- phenylpropanolamine - an adrenergic drug used in many preparations to relieve allergic reactions or respiratory infections
- phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride
- pholcodine
- pipazetate
- pipazetate hydrochloride
- poppy capsule
- prenoxdiazine hydrochloride
- promolate
- pseudoephedrine - poisonous crystalline alkaloid occurring with ephedrine and isomorphic with it
- pseudoephedrine hydrochloride
- pseudoephedrine sulfate
- senega root - eastern north american plant having a terminal cluster of small white flowers and medicinal roots
- sobrerol
- sodium dibunate
- squill - bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant; an old world plant of the genus scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers; having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties
- indian squill
- sulfogaiacol
- talniflumate
- telmesteine
- terpin hydrate
- tetryzoline hydrochloride
- thebacon hydrochloride
- tipepidine hibenzate
- tolu balsam - aromatic yellowish brown balsam from the tolu balsam tree used especially in cough syrups
- tramazoline hydrochloride
- tuaminoheptane sulfate
- tymazoline hydrochloride
- xylometazoline hydrochloride
- zipeprol hydrochloride
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