Ketamine is a medication used widely to induce and maintain anesthesia. While known in medicine for its sedative properties and on the vivid hallucination it causes, it can also protect the brain, reduce  depression and alleviate the symotoms of PTSD. Ketamine also known as Ketalar or ketaject is a drug that initiates and maintains ansthesia. The original drug was first discovered in the early 1960s and approved for use in the United State in 1970. Now it is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as one of the safest and mosty essential drugs in a health system.

What is ketamine used for ?

• Ketamine is similar in structure to phencyclidine (PCP), and it causes a trance-like state and a sense of disconnection from the environment.
• It is the most widely used anesthetic in veterinary medicine and is used for some surgical procedures in humans.
• Ketamine Helps with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Ketamine also reduce pain ,  promotes sleep and reduce seizure
• It is considered a “club drug,” like ecstasy, and it has been abused as a date-rape drug.
• Ketamine should only be used as prescribed by a doctor.