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The compound that causes general antidep...

The compound that causes general antidepressant action on the central nervous system belongs to the class of

A

analgesics

B

tranquiiizers

C

narcotic analgesics

D

antihistamines

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Analgesics reduces or abolish pain without causing impairment of consciousness, mental confusion, incordination or paralysis or some other disturbanes of nervous administered in small doses relieve pain and produce sleep.
Tranquilisers are a class of chemical compounds used for the treatment of stress, and mild or even severse mental diseases.
Hisamine is a substance which on release produce hypersensitivity to dust, some drugs etc (i.e., allergy). Antihistamines are the drugs which interfere with the natural action of histamine by competing with histamine for binding sites of receptor where histamine exerts its effect. They are anti-allergy drugs.
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