Was Cocaine Ever Used for Medicinal Purposes?
Question by alise s: Was cocaine ever used for medicinal purposes?
I do know that heroin was once thought of to treat morphine addiction. I was just wondering whether cocaine might have started out on a similar path.
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Answer by eric54_20
Cocain was used for a variety of things in the 1800’s and early 1900’s in America.
The plant has been used by the South Americans for many many centuries, even to this day.
Answer by callista e
Yes, cocaine started out in pretty much the same way as heroin. It comes from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush and in the early 1900s, it was deemed as a main stimulant drug that was used in a lot of tonics and elixirs that were to treat various illnesses. It was used as an anesthetic and because of it’s mentally stimulating effects, it was also used to treat people with depression.
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