How To Use Counterirritant In A Sentence
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It is one of the most commonly used counterirritants for temporary relief of pain.
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This intelligence, which, at any other time, would have been received with rapturous enthusiasm, was listened to under the influence of a counterirritant already at work, with comparative calmness, and its only effect was to cause a postponement of the vote on the laborers 'bill upon the plea of the lateness of the hour, although not without strenuous opposition from the extreme right.
Edmond Dantès
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Menthol which possesses local anaesthetic and counterirritant qualities is a compound obtained from peppermint oil or other mint oils or made synthetically.
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She had early learned to ignore his moods, to avoid sympathy which aggravates, and to meet his blues with a vigorous counterirritant of liveliness.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I
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The use of a counterirritant is not uncommon with good physicians, but the counter-irritant only does what is much more effectually accomplished when the patient uses his will and intelligence to remove the original irritant by ceasing to resist it.
The Freedom of Life
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While the external application of warm herbal poultices, plasters, or fomentations is commonly used as a counterirritant to relieve underlying pain and congestion, others having a cooler, anti-inflammatory action are used for the treatment of more inflamed injuries and inflammations, and to promote the healing of burns, tissue, and broken bones.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
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A good counterirritant is made by first spreading a thin layer of honey on a gauze or bandage upon which powdered cayenne pepper is generously sprinkled.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
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Midcentury cocktail sage David A. Embury wrote in "The Fine A.t of Mixing Drinks" that the Prairie Oyster was "based on the theory of using a counterirritant.
Hair of the Dog and Other 'Cures'
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It has similar use as a counterirritant to that of the previously described cayenne plaster.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
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It acts as a counterirritant that stimulates nerve endings, helping to reduce the number of pain messages that reach the brain.
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It might be employed like the nettle (Urtica), as a counterirritant in epilepsies, and diseases requiring stimulating applications.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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Distraction could be provided by rubbing the patient with counterirritants such as stinging nettles.
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Danger is often the best counterirritant in cases of mental suffering; he found a solace in careless exposure of his life, and learned to endure the trials of each day better by dwelling in imagination on the possibility that it might be the last for him and the home that was his.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Most other pain creams contain counterirritants which bring about a mild to extreme burning sensation which distracts the mind from the pain temporarily.
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Most counterirritants use heat or cold to ‘distract’ the brain from recognizing the original pain source.
