Elavil - antidepressive medicine. Renders also some analgesic, H2-histamineblocking and antiserotonin action, promotes elimination of bedwetting and reduces appetite. It is taken at Depressions (especially with anexiety, agitation and sleep disorders, including children's age, endogenous, involutional, reactive, neurotic, medicinal, at organic lesions of a brain, alcoholic abstinence), schizophrenic psychoses, mixed emotional frustration, behavior disorders, night enuresis, nervous bulimia, chronic pain syndrome.
Endep - tricyclic antidepressant. The mechanism of antidepressive action is connected with increase in concentration of noradrenaline in synapses and/or serotonin in CNS (decrease in return absorption). Accumulation of these neurotransmitters results from inhibition of their return capture by membranes of presynaptic neurons.