Substance applied to the skin that produces an irritation, heating, or vasodilating action. Generally, it speeds healing by increasing blood circulation and warming deep (usually joint) inflammations.
Superficial irritant used to relieve more deep-seated pain or discomfort.
A substance applied to the skin to produce an irritating, heating, or vasodilating effect, in order to speed local healing by increasing circulation of blood, radiating the heat inward to inflamed tissues deep below the skin. It can also be used to induce reflex stimulation to seemingly unrelated internal organs. (Examples: mustard plaster, Poplar Bud oil.)
An agent, such as a mustard plaster or liniment, that produces inflammation or irritation when applied locally to stimulate circulation in another, usually irritated, surface.
Preparation containing an irritant applied to the skin to stimulate sensory receptors, increase blood flow, and induce a sensation of warmth may have an analgesic effect.
A substance which alleviates the pain in an internal organ by irritating an area of skin whose sensory nerves are close to those of the organ in the spinal cord.
A topically applied agent that produces an inflammatory reaction for the purpose of distraction from a primary sensation, usually pain in deeper tissues.
An agent, such as methyl salicylate, that causes irritation when applied to the skin and is used in order to relieve more deep-seated pain or discomfort.
An agent such as mustard plaster that is applied locally to produce an inflammatory reaction for the purpose of affecting some other part, usually adjacent to or underlying the surface irritated. Three degrees of irritation are produced by the following classes of agents: 1. rubefacients, which redden the skin; 2. vesicants, which produce a blister or vesicle; and 3. escharotics, which form an eschar or slough or cause death of tissue.
Superficial irritation that relieves some other irritation of deeper structures.