reserpine
- n antihypertensive consisting of an alkaloid extracted from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina (trade names Raudixin or Rau-Sed or Sandril or Serpasil)
- From California's Modesto State Hospital came enthusiastic reports of success in using reserpine (PTI, June 21) to calm down the most disturbed patients in the back wards, and .
- After reserpine, and with no more help from the psychiatrists than she had always had, the woman went home on a maintenance dose of one reserpine pill a day.
- Both chlorpromazine and reserpine have marked and undesirable side effects which make them potentially dangerous in the haphazard use which some general practitioners and office .