Serpasil


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Related to Serpasil: reserpine, Rauwolfia alkaloids, Serpalan
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Synonyms for Serpasil

antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil)

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While the original Beers list consisted of 23 inappropriate drugs, the Harvard paper lays claim to only 20, omitting the three antihypertensives, Inderal (propranolol), Aldomet (methyldopa), and Serpasil (reserpine), which they determined were too controversial.
One of them, reserpine (Serpasil), is an ancient, very inexpensive, naturally-occurring drug from India that needs to be taken only once a day.
In it he describes the effect of Serpasil on psychiatric patients (48-50).