摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the uterine stimulants. Although a great number of alkaloids are stimulants, surprisingly few these therapeutically useful drugs. Many them, when administered in doses adequate to increase activity uterus, evoke side actions sufficiently pronounced render them unsatisfactory as oxytocics. In contrast, one outstanding advantages ergot alkaloid ergonovine is its relative freedom from undesirable given effective doses. The clinical oxytocics find their greatest use management postpartum hemorrhage-which today chief cause maternal death. There indeed many hiatuses knowledge physiology uterus. organ unique aiiat.omica1 and functional changes under hormonal influences, which me both complex and, yet, incompletely understood. response uterus drugs profoundly influenced by state concomitant endocrine picture at time investigation.